[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
bug#18395: shred let me kill a mounted device
From: |
Assaf Gordon |
Subject: |
bug#18395: shred let me kill a mounted device |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 19:13:55 -0600 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
tags 18395 notabug
close 18395
stop
(triaging old bugs)
Hello,
On 03/09/14 07:32 AM, macetw wrote:
I expect the shred utility to notice that it's about to operate on a mounted
device, but it gave no such indication.
It seems your email "fell between the cracks" and not replied to in many
years. Sorry about that.
Regarding your suggestion:
Every file and every directory are essentially on a mounted device
(e.g. "/" is mounted from some physical drive, and so are all its
sub-directories).
As a side-note, please be aware the shred's effectiveness is
questionable with today's filesystems and hardware (see the warning
in the manual page).
As such, I'm closing this as "not a bug".
Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.
-assaf
[Prev in Thread] |
Current Thread |
[Next in Thread] |
- bug#18395: shred let me kill a mounted device,
Assaf Gordon <=