Looking for shred
- friendofjane
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Looking for shred
Hello,
does somebody knows where I can find the shred utility, the command line program to wipe securily files ?
I find it strange because shred is a standard command line utility we can find on many distributions.
In my Package manager I tried all possible repositories but nowhere there is the shred utility to install.
Cheers
friendofjane
does somebody knows where I can find the shred utility, the command line program to wipe securily files ?
I find it strange because shred is a standard command line utility we can find on many distributions.
In my Package manager I tried all possible repositories but nowhere there is the shred utility to install.
Cheers
friendofjane
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I haveamigo wrote:Puppy uses busybox instead of coreutils, so it is not in puppy. I would not simply install coreutils, though, as it will break many puppy scripts which depend on the busybox versions of tools included in coreutils.
It came with the SuperLuPu I'm using just now on this computer.~> shred --version
shred (GNU coreutils) 7.4
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
amigo, any ideas on what should I look out for with regard to scripts breaking?
Dell E6410: BusterPup, BionicPup64, Xenial, etc
Intel DQ35JOE, Dell Vostro 430
Dell Inspiron, Acer Aspire One, EeePC 1018P
Intel DQ35JOE, Dell Vostro 430
Dell Inspiron, Acer Aspire One, EeePC 1018P
I downloaded the shred.gz, unzipped it and put it in usr/bin. The first time I entered shred --help in a console, it told me I didn't have permission, so I right-clicked on shred in usr/bin, chose permissions and told it to make it executable. Then the help menu appeared.
I found a very interesting thing in shred's instructions:
I found a very interesting thing in shred's instructions:
It would appear that ext3 can be a journaling file system!In the case of ext3 file systems, the above disclaimer applies
(and shred is thus of limited effectiveness) only in data=journal mode,
which journals file data in addition to just metadata. In both the
data=ordered (default) and data=writeback modes, shred works as usual.
Ext3 journaling modes can be changed by adding the data=something option
to the mount options for a particular file system in the /etc/fstab file,
as documented in the mount man page (man mount)
- friendofjane
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Hi Semme:
I just saw your response. Now I'm going crazy looking for the script that I tied to an Ubuntu "shred like" program but much faster. I'll get back to you on this. Of course there's the dd script but there's something better and quick....
So, while you salivate... take a look at this...
http://www.noah.org/wiki/Dd_-_Destroyer_of_Disks
This above is an amazing write-up about wiping disks. Wish I could take credit but not me.
Stay tuned. I'll find that script and program I'm talking about....
Best,
Slavvo67
I just saw your response. Now I'm going crazy looking for the script that I tied to an Ubuntu "shred like" program but much faster. I'll get back to you on this. Of course there's the dd script but there's something better and quick....
So, while you salivate... take a look at this...
http://www.noah.org/wiki/Dd_-_Destroyer_of_Disks
This above is an amazing write-up about wiping disks. Wish I could take credit but not me.
Stay tuned. I'll find that script and program I'm talking about....
Best,
Slavvo67