The man page for shred indicates that -x prevents shred from rounding up to the "nearest block size", however without -x, shred fails to shred block devices when the device size is not a multiple of the block size. The final write() fails and shred subsequently fails.
Perhaps shred should assume -x when the file to shred is not a regular file? Ben _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
