Re: Default number of overwrites in shred

[John Cowan]

Jim Meyering scripsit:

> My reflex was to object.  Reducing the default number of passes from
> 25 to 1 seemed extreme.  But after skimming through the link below,
> it's hard to argue :-)

Still, there may be older disks hanging about.  How about making the
number of passes inversely proportional to the log of the size of
the disk?  That will smoothly accommodate older disks with wide
recording tracks as well as newer ones with narrow tracks.

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