Re: Default number of overwrites in shred

[Philip Rowlands]

On Fri, 4 May 2007, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Anyway, 'shred' currently does the first, but not the second, as it 
> doesn't verify what it's written.  That should get fixed, no?

Is there a way to ensure reading directly from disk? On Linux I see only 
a whole-system, root-level way to drop cached files [1].


Cheers,
Phil

[1] http://www.linuxinsight.com/proc_sys_vm_drop_caches.html