On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:42:40 -0500 (CDT) Barry Brimer <lists at 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. -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work