From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NLEkt-0005rQ-W8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:42:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 52C71E0C80; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:42:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f225.google.com (mail-fx0-f225.google.com [209.85.220.225]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16B41E0C80 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:42:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm25 with SMTP id 25so1045128fxm.26 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:42:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=FN3N6Zyo0e3Qqk+1boux8C/EeSbioLtU66Soe0/vscc=; b=J/8x4BE+ULVJ5M+oWn2yZ75JI8zNy4icY/rdQpNl0aaHblsabOMHw/FlZAGQJmdQEM rxhLUwjLbFQZ3L6KQ+vSDyxMq64mkOFKgo70XwkVcvcVHtjuBJbxbYt6Q2YuHkml98Zm Wq8AGTWRoR+4rFnkxwree40+aN7230z4BqdOo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=njP4k51fp68YJbQDHhejkHe8YYCrBYEtSwZAg064AiqQl94P+T5LvWbYmwmusGzmKr EeDALXjLPz/tUqLeuKYBIKL66Q9DqJAQZba1/bCyOtxZ55MRLKK/Ezp9w0dbSwwq3P13 GZg9eVNwwc1mc5SgF6hPdbDJdzP2Ug0R3FW5w= Received: by 10.223.161.205 with SMTP id s13mr3027079fax.27.1261050164361; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:42:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.localnet ([82.192.10.147]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 12sm3424524fks.39.2009.12.17.03.42.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:42:43 -0800 (PST) From: Mick 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.3.3; i686; ; ) References: <49bf44f10912161049v3768a3f8m60dddbae4b8777b@mail.gmail.com> <4B299C27.4030306@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1539667.cB9GvoDW6P"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912171142.41399.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 1a0b3b3a-5175-4d4d-8747-dcb271705155 X-Archives-Hash: 29f6924ed6fad03e8ed6d949b0790c13 --nextPart1539667.cB9GvoDW6P Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 >=20 shred ... shreds files. Therefore you may need to point it to the files in= =20 question for it to work. I suspect that if you point it to a device alone = it=20 just shreds the file representing the device on the Linux fs in question. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1539667.cB9GvoDW6P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAksqGTEACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZeOACg8sZ4rCRIDxJRsOlrw5mwbu1T PF8AnikpPBWDEs1vfsjtGVRMwQMbXgVO =1W10 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1539667.cB9GvoDW6P--