On Monday 29 August 2005 07:01 am, Michael Kintzios wrote: > Hi All, > > I was blanking a floppy but when I ran: > ==================== > $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0 > ==================== > /dev/fd0 was dully deleted after the shred operation finished. Rebooting > the machine relaunched udev which recreated fd0 (is there another way to > avoid having to reboot)? >
Very seldom is a reboot requried in Linux. You can always run /sbin/udevstart as root which will recreate the device nodes. > On the second floppy I thought of avoiding unwittingly deleting the fd0 > node so I tried: ==================== > $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0/ > shred: /dev/fd0/: Not a directory > ==================== > Or: > ==================== > $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0/ > shred: /dev/fd0/*: Not a directory > ==================== > > Is there a way of shredding a complete floppy (not just a file at a time) > without removing the /dev/fd0 node? As for your original question about shred I can't really help since I don't use it. And have no need for floppies anymore either. Try man shred and see what the man pages say. -- Chris Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 23:19:33 up 4:38, 5 users, load average: 1.76, 1.50, 1.46 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
