Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The man page for shred indicates that -x prevents shred from rounding > up to the "nearest block size", however without -x, shred fails to > shred block devices when the device size is not a multiple of the > block size. The final write() fails and shred subsequently fails. > > Perhaps shred should assume -x when the file to shred is not a regular > file?
Thanks for the report! That sounds like a good idea. Look forward to something like that in the next test release. The latest (just announced on coreutils-announce[1]) is here: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-4.5.9.tar.bz2 (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils) Jim [1] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/coreutils-announce _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
