Subject: bug#17149: shred - tape data

From: Rupert Russell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:07:49 +0000

Pádraig,

Confession number 2, the Linux box I am using for this task isn't connected to the internet.
Could run this on another Linux box that is connected and transfer the resultant shred file across on a stick?

So much to learn.

Rupert Russell
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The patch works around the kernel behavior and so no changes are needed there.
To compile a new shred binary for testing:

  mkdir shred-test && cd shred-test
  wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.22.tar.xz
  tar -xf coreutils-8.22.tar.xz
  cd coreutils-8.22
  wget 'http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=patch;h=88545ad0' -O- | patch -p1
  ./configure --quiet && make -j $(nproc)

Now the new shred is available in src/shred.
You can run it directly from there or copy to somewhere like /usr/local/bin.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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