On Thursday 17 December 2009 05:13:32 Joshua Murphy wrote: > chicane ~ # shred test/ > shred: test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory > chicane ~ # shred -v -n 25 -z -u ~/test/ > shred: /root/test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory >
shred ... shreds files. Therefore you may need to point it to the files in question for it to work. I suspect that if you point it to a device alone it just shreds the file representing the device on the Linux fs in question. -- Regards, Mick
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