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From: | Keisial |
Subject: | Re: Suggestion for rm(1) |
Date: | Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:38:31 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird |
Eric Blake wrote:
Given newer file systems, I'd rather see something like: Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it might be possible to recover the contents of that file, given sufficient expertise and/or time. If you want more assurance that the contents are truly unrecoverable, consider using shred. That is, we want to point out that shred is better than rm at killing data, while at the same time reducing the newbie impression that recovery is easy, since it usually is not.
What about s/the contents/some contents/ ? The impression of easy recovery is gone since the newbie wants the fullfile. Since retrieving just part of a file is bad enough for sensitive contents,
the user goes for shred in that case. Depending on filesystem, here "some" can go from 0 to 100% so it's technically correct, too.
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