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Subject: Re: Security - How to overwrite empty file space on drive? From: russb@starpower.net Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 02:08:35 -0400 (EDT) On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Joe Briggs wrote: > Windows has a large number of utilities designed to securely > delete/overwrite files, and also to overwrite empty file space on drive > with 1's and 0's. > This is a very important security issue - does Linux have such > capability? You can set the `s' attribute on files using the chattr command; see the man page. When a file with the `s' attribute set is deleted, its blocks are zeroed and written back to the disk. Mit freundlichen Gr