Package: wipe Version: 0.21-9 Severity: minor I could not find out from the man page how many passes wipe takes. When using quick mode, it specifies that the default passes is 4, and you can override that, but only for quick mode. For normal mode, there is no indication of how many passes, or if it just continues indefinately.
Using the source we find it does MAX_PASSES, which is 35: #define MAX_PASSES (sizeof(passinfo)/(sizeof(*passinfo))) So although I appreciate the differentiation between 'normal' and 'quick' mode, it would be nice if it were spelled out more clearly that the 'normal' mode takes that many passes, especially since quick mode is spelled out. Thanks! micah -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-vserver-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages wipe depends on: ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries wipe recommends no packages. wipe suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
