Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> laptop for security purposes. I plan to use a script which uses
shred
> and tmpwatch to clear them out.
>
> Thank you ... I will try this.
>
Make sure your /tmp isn't journaled or shred won't really work well.
ext4 is to have a cool feature I read some time ago, it can be asked to
crap on the sectors that contained a deleted file AND crap over the
metadata. I don't know if it takes care of the journal or not. It
takes care of overwriting the unlinked sectors lazily over the next
little while after the delete IIRC.
-Andy