srm or shred command SOLVED

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srm or shred command SOLVED

#1 Post by titus »

Hello again,
Still delighted with my Slacko but I don't seem to be able to securely remove files. With other distros I've used the "shred" command or "srm" neither of which is apparently available in Slacko. What do you use, anyone?
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#2 Post by SFR »

I simply took "shred" binary from Lupu-528.

Also, I came up with this once:

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SIZE=`du -b FILENAME | cut -f1` 
dd if=/dev/urandom of=FILENAME bs=1 count=$SIZE
but I'm still not sure if this really overwrites exactly the same sectors of a file..?

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#3 Post by titus »

Thank you SFR,
That worked fine. I didn't have an ISO of Lupu but I found another distro, a Debian based one which provided the required bin.
Thanks again.
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