Re: bug of shred

[Pádraig Brady]

hanmzh wrote:
> Thanks for  replying my mail.
> The meaning of sour-files is source files. ^_^
> 
> The end of help message of shred. I saw some sentence like this, 
> "the backup of file system maybe have all copies of this file, the copies 
> can't be delete, and would resume the files which had be delete by shred."
> 
> So I think the backup mean the copies of files. You know , I want to find the 
> backup and delete them.

Shred really is only useful for disk devices,
unless you know your filesystem and applications
haven't made copies of the data.
Finding those copies it is filesystem (mode) dependent
and can be very awkward.

cheers,
Pádraig.