Basic shred and Wine questions

[Cuddles McKitten]

1. Does the shred command have any ability to shred free (unused) disk space?

2. I think I already know the answer in this one, but I need someone to destroy all hope for me. If I want to run a Windows program through Wine, do I absolutely need to have some sort of a Windows partition on my hard drive?

-Thanks

[Mornedhel]

1. Does the shred command have any ability to shred free (unused) disk space?

shred shreds files.


2. I think I already know the answer in this one, but I need someone to destroy all hope for me. If I want to run a Windows program through Wine, do I absolutely need to have some sort of a Windows partition on my hard drive?

No, you don't. You can install Windows programs through Wine ; they'll be in "~/.wine/drive_c". It is also possible to run programs from an existing partition (handy in case you are dual booting), but not mandatory.

[Cesaar]

2. No, you don't need to have any Windows partitions to run a Windows program through Wine.

[Mornedhel]

Re. the shred question, I've just taken a look to the repositories, a package called secure-delete claims to include an utility to do what you need.

[Cuddles McKitten]

Re. the shred question, I've just taken a look to the repositories, a package called secure-delete claims to include an utility to do what you need.

No, you don't. You can install Windows programs through Wine ; they'll be in "~/.wine/drive_c". It is also possible to run programs from an existing partition (handy in case you are dual booting), but not mandatory.

Hooray! Both problems came out better than I expected. Thanks.