How can I shred this folder?

I used the shred command to wipe a partition. Everything is gone in that partition now except a folder called "lost+found". It is owned by root, and if I look for files by the dir command as root, there is nothing in the folder. But gparted shows that there is 2.91 GB of used space in this partition, which I am assuming must be in this lost+found folder. How can I see what these files are and securely delete them?

 

Afaik it's reserved space not used space.

 

There's nothing to delete there. Seven seconds with a search engine:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/lostfound.html

http://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...ose-of-the-lostfound-folder-in-linux-and-unix

Mrk

 

Hi lurningcerv,

Given that you have shredded the partition (i.e. the shred command can do everything the wipe command can do) and gparted shows 2.91GB of used space (which Mrk states is not used but reserved), you might just want to consider launching Disk Utility and reformatting the partition to its original state - if that is what you are aiming to do.

-- Tom

 

If you want to recover the space try (note that 0 can be any % and sda can be any drive):
sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sda