"Sebastian Gottschalk" <seppi@seppig.de> wrote in message
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> Stuart Miller wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy way to force writing of the cache?
>
> Yes. 'sync' comes with every Unix, and there are various versions of
> sync.exe for Windows.
>
> But the better way is to overwrite data while bypassing the cache, because
> it doesn't fill the cache with bogus data, which would impact performance.
>

I see two convenient ways to do this

1 - open the text file, cut / delete the contents, add some garbage data,
and save
repeat cycle to drop the backup files

2 - delete file as usual, create a new file with same name in same folder,
write some garbage to it, save, exit wp, delete

Any significant difference to these approaches?

>> I recall a discussion of this in one of the linux newsgroups a few months
>> ago.
>
> Well, why don't read the manual of a good tool like SDelete for a detailed
> technical discussion of the issue?
>
Thanks - will do

It wasn't so much the paranoia of ensuring files to be unreadable, it was
just the surprise of finding them back

>> OK, so perhaps it was just bad timing. But now all the important stuff
>> stays
>> on the linux machines. Or does ext3 have the same issues?
>
> Almost all filesystems have that issue. And especially ext3, also it also
> does journaling.

Stuart