On 12/17/2009 6:42 AM, Mick wrote:
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.
That would be a bit inconvenient...I still vote for dd, overwriting the
thing 26 times sounds like WAY overkill for a hdd...
Marcus
