Hi!
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:01:07 +0000 (GMT) "Michael Kintzios"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was blanking a floppy but when I ran:
> ====================
> $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0
> ====================
> /dev/fd0 was dully deleted after the shred operation finished.
> Rebooting the machine relaunched udev which recreated fd0 (is there
> another way to avoid having to reboot)?
Why was it deleted? Did you run the command as root?
> Is there a way of shredding a complete floppy (not just a file at a
> time) without removing the /dev/fd0 node? --
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.
Cheers,
Renat
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