Thread: Shred command on the N9?
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Hurrian is offline Hurrian
2013-02-01 , 00:44
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The flash chip automatically does wear leveling, so the only way of shredding a file would be to fill the free space with zeroes (dd if=/dev/zero of=reallybigfile.file) and wait until dd exits with ENOSPC.
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