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 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils