Secure deletion of files in a directory

[David Shaw]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:56:05PM +0200, Albert wrote:
> I have to return a new hard drive in warranty and to delete a lot of 
> directories which contain private data. Unfortunately the data of 
> S.M.A.R.T are erased too, if I use badblocks -w to overwrite the 
> _whole_ drive.
> 
> I know there is a possibility to shredder a file with gpg, but not a 
> directory. What do you recommend?

GnuPG does not have a file shredder.  It is not possible to write such
a thing to be portable to as many platforms at GnuPG runs on.

I'd look at "shred", but keep in mind the caveats the author gives in
the man page.

David