Re: poposal: wipe-gnome (integrating wipe into nautilus)

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 05:49 +0100, Stefano wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> i've got a proposal for nautilus.
> it would be great if you could wipe data with right-click -> wipe in
> nautilus
> 
> it would also be cool to have a feature such as secure empty trash as
> in mac os x. 

In general its hard to implement wipe on modern journalling filesystems,
as multiple writes to a file writes to different places on the disk. So,
i'm not sure this could be implemented well.