Aha, Ok, I've aborted my script which had only been running a short while and I'll run this overnight and see what happens at the end. Just ran a short test for a few minutes (90mb worth on the tape) and the tracefile was under 3meg, so I am hoping that my 140gig available diskspace will be enough...
Regards Rupert Russell OPERATIONS MANAGER Ilmor Engineering Ltd Quarry Road, Brixworth, Northamptonshire, NN6 9UB, UK Direct: +44 (0)1604 799105 Main: +44 (0)1604 799100 Web: www.ilmor.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 01 April 2014 14:51 To: Rupert Russell Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: bug#17149: shred - tape data Rupert Russell wrote: > shred -o tracefile -v /dev/st0 Ouch, sorry, I meant "strace -o tracefile shred -v /dev/st0". ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail may contain confidential and /or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error)please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this email is strictly forbidden. This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com
