You can't guarantee much if the machine is physically compromised. In
the situation of wiping, you probably won't need swap immediately after
boot so you can afford to execute a script that wipes the file/partition
then mounts it.
It's all easily accomplished in userspace.
David
David Lang wrote:
>only if you can guarenty that there is no way to avoid wiping it even if
>this is the 2nd (or 3rd) hard drive (and what about how swap drives that
>get added to a system after boot)
>
>also this had better be a configuration option. I don't want to wait for
>2g of swap space to be wiped when I boot by webserver (which defeates my
>previous requirement)
>
>David Lang
>
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