Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 29 August 2005 07:01 am, Michael Kintzios wrote: > 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 rec

Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Jason Cooper
Michael Kintzios ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > 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 a

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Michael Kintzios
> From:: Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/* > Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:09:36 +0200 > Why -u? > From the man page: > > > Delete FILE(s) if --remove (-u)

Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Sergio Polini
Michael Kintzios: > There's nothing wrong with dd, but I see no reason to create my own > script to extend the basic dd functionality. I would rather use > shred which does everything I want it to do - if only I can avoid > the deletion if the device node itself. Why -u? >From the man page:

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Michael Kintzios
> From:: Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/* > Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:35:28 +0200 > > Why was it deleted? Did you run the command as root? Well, yes because when I run

Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:01:07 + (GMT) "Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 relau

[gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Michael Kintzios
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 sec