On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:42:40 -0500 (CDT) Barry Brimer lists@brimer.org wrote:
As you did not mention the filesystem on your USB drives, I did not know whether or not shred would be effective for you.
It may or may not be reasonable to format the drives with vfat or ext2 and then run shred, which would add an additional layer of masking.
I should have 1st mentioned that 3 are Ext3, 1 a ReiserFS, the rest are NTFS, there may be one FAT32.