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I'm going to switch to a new VPS and I want to completely delete some confidential files/folders from the current VPS (and MySQL content too). The server is running CENTOS 6.

Btw, it's not rm -rf. I want to remove files/folders without recovery (that means erase all inode contents, not just unlink them).

Is there tool to do so?

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  • I've found out that wipe (wipe.sourceforge.net) may be the best way for safe deletion.
    – hiro
    Dec 24, 2013 at 11:52

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You can take a look at shred, which overwrites files repeatedly, making recovery a lot harder.

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  • Make sure to also shred tempfs.
    – ablackhat
    Dec 24, 2013 at 9:09

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