On Fri, 4 May 2007, Paul Eggert wrote:

Anyway, 'shred' currently does the first, but not the second, as it doesn't verify what it's written. That should get fixed, no?

Is there a way to ensure reading directly from disk? On Linux I see only a whole-system, root-level way to drop cached files [1].


Cheers,
Phil

[1] http://www.linuxinsight.com/proc_sys_vm_drop_caches.html


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