> Ah. The uncompressed shred binary is about 445k, although I'd crunched it > down to 196k with gzexe.
gzexe doesn't help at all, because tomsrtbt is already compressing it all with bzip2, it probably actually hurts a little. Stripping it will help, though, using "strip programname". > the binary before executing it, not shred itself. If I can find a way to > squeeze shred into the image without gzexe, it should work fine. I'll work Again, gzexe is totally counterproductive and useless, so just bag it and you'll be better off. > BTW, the latest busybox appears to include mktemp. Is there any reason I > shouldn't use the latest busybox (e.g. has it been customized to work with > tomsrtbt)? It has only been customized a very tiny bit, which you won't miss. I added commands to turn off echo (like stty) when you enter the password. But, if it is only needed for gzexe, it won't matter. -Tom
