[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to get in touch with Colin Plumb regarding "shred". > Recently I am trying to shred data for my company but when we try to run > "shred" with 5 passes, it does not return after 4 days. We have a tight > deadline to complete this exercise for all servers. > > I want to see if Colin can give me any advice. The platform is Solaris > 8 on SunFire machines (V420, V280).
Consider using only one pass. Even some government standards recognize that 3 is sufficient, on modern disks. Here's a thread where this was discussed at length: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/10375/focus=10427 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
