similar to: Multiple-pass overwrite of EXT3 file on a journalled fs

Hi, I have a wishlist item. Is there an appropriate place for me to post it? Basically, I would like to know that my email isn't recoverable from the local disk on the mail server after I delete it. So instead of just deleting the file from my Maildir, I'd like the option to exist for Dovecot to shred it.. Ie, overwrite the file with random data and/or null bytes before deletion. In the

Hi, We will have to go and use SuSE (30 servers) just because ext3 filesystem cannot be increase while the filesystem is mounted. I Don't understand why RedHat do not support filesystems that can do thing that ext3 cannot do. When is RedHat going to understand that in a production environnement (30 servers that is seems will be SuSE) we need extend filesystem online. IBM JS,

Anybody know a way to enlarge a filesystem ext3 without having to unmounted it, when they are still space left in the volume group (when using LVM) ? I will be running large production linux system running Oracle. I can't stop the database everytime I have to enlarge a filesystem. We can do it with all others filesystems (JFS, REISERSFS and XFS) when they are created in a volume group. Why

On 11/08/2017 11:36 PM, Kingsley Tart wrote: > Hi, > > if we were to use shred to delete a file on a gluster volume, will the > correct blocks be overwritten on the bricks? > > (still using Gluster 3.6.3 as have been too cautious to upgrade a > mission critical live system). When I strace `shred filename`, it just seems to write + fsync random values into the file based on

Hi, if we were to use shred to delete a file on a gluster volume, will the correct blocks be overwritten on the bricks? (still using Gluster 3.6.3 as have been too cautious to upgrade a mission critical live system). Cheers, Kingsley.

I've got an old RAID that I attached to a box. LSI card, and the RAID has 12 drives, for a total RAID size of 9.1TB, I think. I started shred /dev/sda the Friday before last... and it's still running. Is this reasonable for it to be taking this long...? mark

James Szinger wrote: > Disclaimer: My $dayjob is with a government contractor, but I am speaking > as private citizen. > > Talk to your organization's computer security people. They will have a > standard procedure for getting rid of dead disks. We on the internet > can't > know what they are. I'm betting it involves some degree of paperwork. > > Around

Now that I've been enlightened to the terrible write performance of ext3 on my new 3Ware RAID 5 array, I'm stuck choosing an alternative filesystem. I benchmarked XFS, JFS, ReiserFS and ext3 and they came back in that order from best to worst performer. I'm leaning towards XFS because of performance and because centosplus makes kernel modules available for the stock kernel.

Hi, I need to securely wipe out a disk on a remote machine, but I don't have access to that machine. Therefore I cannot use the LiveCD+shred (or dd) combination. Besides manually shreding known data files, I am wondering if there is a (free) tool that can be used in my case. Thanks.

I've got a 3.3TB ext3 on a FC3 64-bit system, running kernel 2.6.10-1.766FC3smp. I create the partition with parted 1.6.21, and I make the fs via: mkfs.ext3 -m1 -b 4096 -T largefile4 /dev/sda1 Works fine. bonnie++ running on it multiple times for days on end, no problems. However, I do the exact same setup on a RHEL4-AS i686 system, 32-bit, and the fs is totally hosed, get all kinds of

I''ve been seeing read and write performance pathologies with Linux ext3 over iSCSI to zvols, especially with small writes. Does running a journalled filesystem to a zvol turn the block storage into swiss cheese? I am considering serving ext3 journals (and possibly swap too) off a raw, hardware-mirrored device. Before I do (and I''ll write up any results) I''d like to know

I've been playing with ocfs2 in local mode, and was really suprised how fast it was. I was playing with extracting a linux distribution on my hardrive that was tar gzipped (GZIP=-1) and extracting it onto a different hard drive. This was with kernel 2.6.28. ocfs2-5m6s reiser4-4m19s reiser3-6m38 jfs-8m18s ext2-4m7s ext3-7m18s xfs-6m29s ext4m55s I noticed the delete times were very slow with

A few wild ideas/questions : 1) Is there a way to check the size of the journal of an ext3 filesystem ? I mean - the actually used size ; not the total size of the journal. 2) Would it be difficult to implement "freeze" of ext3 filesystem - that is, blocking all I/O to the filesystem until it's "unfrozen" (XFS can do that), for two purposes : A/ allowing

I got a very strange problem with call-hold function. For calls that come in from PSTN and route to a SIP extension. If I put the call on hold, I cannot unhold the call after. The caller would be left with hold music forever. A warning message would be shown on the console usually a few seconds after putting the call on hold: WARNING[17428]: chan_sip.c:686 retrans_pkt: Maximum retries

Hi, This is the one thing holding me back from switching to Dovecot... Can anyone give a realistic timeframe for when Shred maildirs will be officially supported? Thanks... other than that missing piece, Dovecot rocks! Charles

i want to use Ext3 as journal file system in a server, and there are several requirements: 1,the largest file should be no smaller than 1TB 2,the largest file syetem should be no smaller than 4TB 3,the max file name should be no less than 255 bytes does Ext3 fix it? or how could i do to solve this requirements? Thanks for your patience and expertise!

Hi, I have installed Red Hat Linux 7.3 with ext2 file system and I have multiple partition. I converted them to ext3 using following command. tune2fs -j -i 0 /dev/hdaX And I modified /etc/fstab as below. LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts

Hello, On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:01:56 -0400 m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > Good evening from Singapore! > > > > The foremost question which I want to ask is, what is the universal > > (world wide) understanding behind degaussing hard drives? > > > > I work for No Secrets Agency (NSA) Pte Ltd (fictitious company name

Hello. I'm having serious issues with ext3; any insight would be greatly appreciated: _____ Overview: I believe ext3 is supposed to be recoverable in the case of a power failure by replaying the log. However, on two separate computers (running different operatings systems too), this has been everything but the case. _____ Specifics: Sometimes, my kernel will hard-freeze and I'll

Hi, If the ext3 file system maximum size updated or it is still 4TB for 2.6.* kernel? The site at http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html says that it is 4TB yet, but I would like to know if it is possible to create and use stable & easy-to-fix (or at least as stable & easy-to-fix as ext3) file systems as big as 100TB for 32 bit Linux architecture? Any experience