From: Renat Golubchyk <ragermany@gmx.net>
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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050829143528.2269a522@mating-tux.renatik.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <181871780128798@lycos-europe.com>
Hi!
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:01:07 +0000 (GMT) "Michael Kintzios"
<michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk> 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 relaunched udev which recreated fd0 (is there
> another way to avoid having to reboot)?
Why was it deleted? Did you run the command as root?
> Is there a way of shredding a complete floppy (not just a file at a
> time) without removing the /dev/fd0 node? --
What's wrong with good old dd? How about
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0
You can also use /dev/random if it has to be more secure. For even more
security run it multiple times in a loop.
Cheers,
Renat
--
Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen,
durch die sie entstanden sind.
(Einstein)
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-29 12:01 [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/* Michael Kintzios
2005-08-29 12:35 ` Renat Golubchyk [this message]
2005-08-29 14:12 ` Jason Cooper
2005-08-30 4:23 ` Chris Cox
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2005-08-29 12:59 Michael Kintzios
2005-08-29 13:09 ` Sergio Polini
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