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# shred | ||
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<!-- spell-checker:ignore writeback --> | ||
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``` | ||
shred [OPTION]... FILE... | ||
``` | ||
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Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even | ||
very expensive hardware probing to recover the data. | ||
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## After help | ||
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Delete FILE(s) if `--remove` (`-u`) is specified. The default is not to remove | ||
the files because it is common to operate on device files like /dev/hda, and | ||
those files usually should not be removed. | ||
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CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption: that the file | ||
system overwrites data in place. This is the traditional way to do things, but | ||
many modern file system designs do not satisfy this assumption. The following | ||
are examples of file systems on which shred is not effective, or is not | ||
guaranteed to be effective in all file system modes: | ||
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* log-structured or journal file systems, such as those supplied with | ||
AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.) | ||
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* file systems that write redundant data and carry on even if some writes | ||
fail, such as RAID-based file systems | ||
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* file systems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS server | ||
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* file systems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS | ||
version 3 clients | ||
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* compressed file systems | ||
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In the case of ext3 file systems, the above disclaimer applies (and shred is | ||
thus of limited effectiveness) only in `data=journal` mode, which journals file | ||
data in addition to just metadata. In both the `data=ordered` (default) and | ||
`data=writeback` modes, shred works as usual. Ext3 journal modes can be changed | ||
by adding the `data=something` option to the mount options for a particular | ||
file system in the `/etc/fstab` file, as documented in the mount man page (`man | ||
mount`). | ||
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In addition, file system backups and remote mirrors may contain copies of | ||
the file that cannot be removed, and that will allow a shredded file to be | ||
recovered later. |
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