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Package: wipe
Version: 0.20-2
Severity: normal
*** Please type your report below this line ***
Running wipe on a large partition, eg with
wipe -kD /dev/hda1
does not always wipe the whole partition.
Example: I tried to wipe a partition with 81956657664 bytes; wipe wrote
only 352279040 Bytes per pass (checked with strace).
Since this number is exactly the same as (81956657664 % 2^32) = 352279040,
I conclude that wipe tries to coerce the size into a 32 bit number.
This is serious problem: not only does it fail to erase the whole
partition, the progress output does not really indicate that. Nowhere it
is explained that the numbers mean the number of 16kB blocks being
written.
In the case in question, I only noted the obvious mismatch between the time
for a pass and the size of the partition.
If my analysis is correct, then it might be a good idea to check what
happens if one tries to wipe a file of more than 4GB size.
Rainer Schoepf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages wipe depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
wipe recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
Rainer Schöpf
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: wipe
Source-Version: 0.21-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
wipe, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
wipe_0.21-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/w/wipe/wipe_0.21-1.diff.gz
wipe_0.21-1.dsc
to pool/main/w/wipe/wipe_0.21-1.dsc
wipe_0.21-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/w/wipe/wipe_0.21-1_i386.deb
wipe_0.21.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/w/wipe/wipe_0.21.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Thomas Schoepf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated wipe package)
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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:02:56 +0200
Source: wipe
Binary: wipe
Architecture: source i386
Version: 0.21-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Thomas Schoepf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Thomas Schoepf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
wipe - Secure file deletion
Closes: 383467
Changes:
wipe (0.21-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Acknowledge the changes made in the NMU 0.20-2.1. Thanks to Max Kellermann
for the patch and Alexander Wirt for the NMU!
Closes: Bug#383467
* The NMU patch for Bug#383467 are now incorporated upstream.
* debian/README.Debian: removed because upstream removed the files rc6.c,
rc6.h and secure_del.html from the tarball. Now the Debian tar.gz no
longer differs from the upstream .tar.gz.
* debian/control: Bumped Standards-Version to 3.7.2. No changes required.
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dc1c9c4a9ed5bbafc17520d6d6b7a505 3338 utils extra wipe_0.21-1.diff.gz
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