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On Monday 29 August 2005 07:01 am, Michael Kintzios wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I was blanking a floppy but when I ran: |
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> $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0 |
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> /dev/fd0 was dully deleted after the shred operation finished. Rebooting |
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> the machine relaunched udev which recreated fd0 (is there another way to |
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> avoid having to reboot)? |
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Very seldom is a reboot requried in Linux. You can always run /sbin/udevstart |
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as root which will recreate the device nodes. |
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> On the second floppy I thought of avoiding unwittingly deleting the fd0 |
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> node so I tried: ==================== |
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> $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0/ |
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> shred: /dev/fd0/: Not a directory |
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> Or: |
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> $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0/ |
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> shred: /dev/fd0/*: Not a directory |
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> Is there a way of shredding a complete floppy (not just a file at a time) |
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> without removing the /dev/fd0 node? |
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As for your original question about shred I can't really help since I don't |
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use it. And have no need for floppies anymore either. Try man shred and see |
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what the man pages say. |
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Chris |
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Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP |
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23:19:33 up 4:38, 5 users, load average: 1.76, 1.50, 1.46 |
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