On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 20:54 -0500, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > [...]
> > Besides, you can't "wipe" files on a journaling fs.  So, you re-
> > mount your ext3 partition as ext2, wipe the file(s) and then re-
> > mount as ext3.
> > [...]
> 
> Huh?
> 
> Are you suggesting that you can't permanently delete a file's data by 
> overwriting the file before deleting it?

Not in any journaling fs. 

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