Re: How to tune shred to run faster on Solaris 8

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden wrote:
> I would like to get in touch with Colin Plumb regarding "shred".
> Recently I am trying to shred data for my company but when we try to run
> "shred" with 5 passes, it does not return after 4 days.  We have a tight
> deadline to complete this exercise for all servers.
>
> I want to see if Colin can give me any advice.  The platform is Solaris
> 8 on SunFire machines (V420, V280).

Consider using only one pass.
Even some government standards recognize that 3 is sufficient,
on modern disks.  Here's a thread where this was discussed at length:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/10375/focus=10427