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Re: Deleting/overwriting data

according to the man page, shred(1) can do it

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 03:59:12PM +0100, Andreas Schreier wrote:
> I have recovered some data from my deleted loop-AES 
> encrypted root partition. I saved it on a partition that is 
> not encrypted. I would like to delete these files. This 
> time they shouldn't be recoverable. How can I do that? I 
> guess just doing 'rm my_files' will not be enough. Is there 
> a good way to overwrite the data so that it can't be 
> recovered? (I have a backup this time ;-))
> 
> Best regards
> Andreas
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