Hi All, I was blanking a floppy but when I ran: ==================== $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0 ==================== /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: ==================== $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0/ shred: /dev/fd0/: Not a directory ==================== Or: ==================== $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0/ shred: /dev/fd0/*: Not a directory ==================== Is there a way of shredding a complete floppy (not just a file at a time) without removing the /dev/fd0 node? -- Regards, Mick Lycos email has now 300 Megabytes of free storage... Get it now at mail.lycos.co.uk
