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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:42:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912171142.41399.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c30988c30912162113g4a6f2f92k82e48ab22778997c@mail.gmail.com>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-17 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-16 18:49 [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale Grant
2009-12-16 19:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-12-16 19:24 ` Mick
2009-12-16 21:25   ` Albert Hopkins
2009-12-16 23:24   ` Marcus Wanner
2009-12-17 11:23     ` Mick
2009-12-16 23:36   ` Dale
2009-12-17  0:37     ` Robert Bridge
2009-12-17  8:13       ` Alan McKinnon
2009-12-17  9:52         ` Adam
2009-12-17 15:12         ` Alex Schuster
2009-12-17 15:19           ` Nevynxxx
2009-12-17 15:35         ` Robert Bridge
2009-12-17  0:56     ` Joshua Murphy
2009-12-17  2:49       ` Dale
2009-12-17  5:13         ` Joshua Murphy
2009-12-17 11:42           ` Mick [this message]
2009-12-17 12:47             ` Albert Hopkins
2009-12-19  9:39               ` Mick
2009-12-17 13:40             ` Marcus Wanner
2009-12-17 14:26               ` Neil Bothwick
2009-12-17 16:49                 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-12-17 22:09                   ` Neil Bothwick
2009-12-17 23:15                     ` BRM
2009-12-17 19:29               ` Stroller
2009-12-16 19:54 ` Robert Bridge
2009-12-18 17:08   ` Grant
2009-12-18 18:20     ` Dale
2009-12-18 18:30       ` Grant
2009-12-18 20:09       ` Albert Hopkins
2009-12-18 18:28     ` Joshua Murphy
2009-12-18 23:05       ` Grant
2009-12-19  0:23         ` Dale
2009-12-19  0:32         ` Albert Hopkins
2009-12-19  1:51         ` Marcus Wanner
2009-12-19  1:58           ` Grant
2009-12-19 10:59             ` Neil Bothwick
2009-12-19 12:11               ` [gentoo-user] Re: dd - bytes at a time Stroller
2009-12-19 15:15                 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-12-21  3:39                   ` Joshua Murphy
2009-12-19 16:50               ` [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale Grant
2009-12-19 18:47                 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-12-19 22:57                   ` Grant
2009-12-20 21:56                   ` Grant
2009-12-20 23:30                     ` Willie Wong
2009-12-21 17:01                       ` Grant
2009-12-21 18:31                         ` Willie Wong
2009-12-21 19:38                           ` Dale
2009-12-21 20:06                             ` Grant
2009-12-21 22:28                               ` Dale
2009-12-22 23:10                               ` Willie Wong
2009-12-22 23:08                                 ` Grant
2010-01-10 11:36                             ` [gentoo-user] coreutils compilation fail Li
2010-01-10 12:39                               ` Arttu V.
2009-12-21 20:03                           ` [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale Grant
2009-12-22  2:59                             ` Grant
2009-12-22  7:14                               ` Alan McKinnon
2009-12-22 18:34                               ` Grant
2009-12-21 22:18                           ` Neil Bothwick
2009-12-22 13:04                             ` John H. Moe
2009-12-22 15:41                               ` Neil Bothwick
2009-12-22 23:14                                 ` Willie Wong
2009-12-19 16:46             ` Marcus Wanner
2009-12-18 20:08     ` Albert Hopkins
2009-12-16 19:58 ` John Lowry
2009-12-16 21:12 ` Dan Cowsill
     [not found] ` <c30988c30912161202n79a212ecx734336b46ec9e990@mail.gmail.com>
2009-12-17 15:51   ` Alex Schuster

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