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shred let me kill a mounted device

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From: macetw <macetw <at> gmail.com>
To: 18395 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18395: shred let me kill a mounted device
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 06:32:19 -0700 (PDT)

It was a sad day for me yesterday, when I discovered that I accidentally
shred'ed my /home.

I expect the shred utility to notice that it's about to operate on a mounted
device, but it gave no such indication. Maybe an interactive prompt, like
"this disk is connected by USB | SATA | IDE" or "this disk is 250G in size",
some sanity check, and then a prompt, "Are you sure?" If disks are mounted,
it would say so.

Oh, my stuff is gone. <sad face>



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