~David~ wrote:

> What about the linux command shred? Does that work well against forensic hard
> drive software?

Actually no. It's an outdated software that never addresses modern
issues like journaling.

Well, why don't you try it on your on. Run Windows with an NTFS file
system or Linux with ext3. Write some content, overwrite it with 'shred'
or alikes, the immediately do a hard shut down and then search for the
previous content of the file.