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Hi! |
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:01:07 +0000 (GMT) "Michael Kintzios" |
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<michaelkintzios@××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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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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> ==================== |
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> /dev/fd0 was dully deleted after the shred operation finished. |
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> Rebooting the machine relaunched udev which recreated fd0 (is there |
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> another way to avoid having to reboot)? |
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Why was it deleted? Did you run the command as root? |
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> Is there a way of shredding a complete floppy (not just a file at a |
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> time) without removing the /dev/fd0 node? -- |
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What's wrong with good old dd? How about |
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$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 |
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You can also use /dev/random if it has to be more secure. For even more |
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security run it multiple times in a loop. |
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Cheers, |
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Renat |
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Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, |
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durch die sie entstanden sind. |
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(Einstein) |
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