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 12:59:09 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7925530655061@lycos-europe.com> (raw)
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> 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
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> Why was it deleted? Did you run the command as root?
Well, yes because when I run it as a plain user I am denied access:
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$ shred -u -v /dev/fd0
shred: /dev/fd0: Permission denied
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> 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.
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.
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Regards,
Mick
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