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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29317: closed (info shred:documentation feedback)
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:57:02 +0000

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From: kalle <kalle <at> projektwerkstatt.de>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: info shred:documentation feedback
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:38:09 +0100

hello,

- at the sentence "by default does not truncate": what does truncating a
file means? Could this be described better in the manual?
-part "on a busy system": why is this written here? Is this a usual
method to overwrite content?

thanks,
kalle

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: kalle <kalle <at> projektwerkstatt.de>, 29317-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29317: info shred:documentation feedback
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 16:56:10 -0800

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On 16/11/17 03:38, kalle wrote:
> hello,
> 
> - at the sentence "by default does not truncate": what does truncating a
> file means? Could this be described better in the manual?
> -part "on a busy system": why is this written here? Is this a usual
> method to overwrite content?

truncate deallocates data.
remove deletes the reference to the data.

I suppose truncate is to deallocate, as unlink is to remove,
so the attached uses 'deallocate' instead of 'truncate'.

cheers,
Pádraig

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