[gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

[Michael Kintzios]

Hi All,

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 the machine relaunched udev which recreated fd0 (is there another way to avoid having to reboot)?

On the second floppy I thought of avoiding unwittingly deleting the fd0 node so I tried:
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$ shred -u -v /dev/fd0/
shred: /dev/fd0/: Not a directory
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Or:
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$ shred -u -v /dev/fd0/
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) without removing the /dev/fd0 node?
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Regards,
Mick

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