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On 12/17/2009 6:42 AM, Mick wrote: |
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> On Thursday 17 December 2009 05:13:32 Joshua Murphy wrote: |
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>> chicane ~ # shred test/ |
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>> shred: test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory |
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>> chicane ~ # shred -v -n 25 -z -u ~/test/ |
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>> shred: /root/test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory |
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> shred ... shreds files. Therefore you may need to point it to the files in |
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> question for it to work. I suspect that if you point it to a device alone it |
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> just shreds the file representing the device on the Linux fs in question. |
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That would be a bit inconvenient...I still vote for dd, overwriting the |
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thing 26 times sounds like WAY overkill for a hdd... |
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