[CentOS] wiping out data on a disk (no physical acess to the machine)
Gordon Messmer
yinyang at eburg.com
Mon Jan 14 01:43:29 UTC 2013
On 01/13/2013 05:10 AM, Carl T. Miller wrote:
> Hmm. I find it odd that you're saying something doesn't work when I've
> seen it work. Don't forget shred is loaded into memory and that echo is
> an internal command and hence stored in memory. The final command turns
> off the system, effectively clearing the memory.
Well, it won't work reliably. If the kernel tries to read the
filesystem, it's going to panic (which I've also seen; your anecdote
does not prove the process to be reliable). Even *fixing* a broken
filesystem while it's mounted can cause a panic. Try running fsck on a
mounted filesystem (even one mounted read-only). You'll be warned not
to do that for a reason.
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