From: "Michael Kintzios" <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:20:02 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54450000017705@lycos-europe.com> (raw)
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> From:: Sergio Polini <sp_rm_it@yahoo.it>
> 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) is specified. The default is not to
> remove the files because it is common to operate on device files
> like /dev/hda, and those files usually should not be removed.
> ========
Oops, I brushed over it too fast and missed this rather important point! So, the -u option should NOT be used on devices. ;-) Thanks Sergio!
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Mick
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