Ubuntu :: Make Shred Command Display Confirmation Before Shredding?
Feb 5, 2011
I use nautilus-action to create a right-click shred command with these parameters.: -f -u -v -z %M
I thought the -v would give me some feedback as well as an "are you sure" dialog before deleting. But when I run Shred it just deletes the file without any feedback and no confirmation beforehand.
How can I get a confirmation prompt to occur before shredding occurs (to prevent me from accidentaly shredding something--sometimes I click the wrong item cause the mouse shifts last second).
Any why don't any icons ever appear on my context menu even though I'm assigning icons?
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Jun 4, 2010
It is possible to not only have the progress of the shredding, but the time elapsed/remained/whatever as well? It would be great to be able to see the time elapsed/time remaining along with the percentage complete.
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Feb 8, 2011
I considered making my system run the following if an incorrect password is entered 10 times in a row or a specific dead-password is entered.Code:shred /home/.ecryptfs/$USER/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase.Because ext4 doesn't journal the contents of the file, only the metadata, the file would be shredded and it would be impossible to recover the encrypted home folder even with the password.Is there a simple way I could make GDM check this or would I have to patch and recompile GDM for something like this to work?
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Jul 11, 2011
I am really new to linux and probably getting over my head but got to start somewhere. with making a shell script to run on puppy linux to shred all drives connected to it. I have been able to successfully use the command to wipe all drives connected but cant figure out how to write a script for it. I have several hard drives i got and want to shred wipe them before using them..
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Aug 20, 2010
This hard disk is an old Maxtor (60G) extracted from an old computer, working fine. I placed in an enclosure and connected it to my Linux Box (Slack 12.1). It was recognized immediately and mounted automatically. However, before giving away the hard disk, I tried to wipe the data by running shred /dev/sdf At some point, I realized that it was going to take a long time, and aborted the process and disconnected the enclosure. Now, none of my Linux boxes recognize the disk inside the enclosure. Here is the output, when I plug in the usb cable, while using systemrescuecd on my desktop computer:
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Aug 20 00:58:17 sysresccd kernel: [ 3582.116029] usb 2-6: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 12
Aug 20 00:58:17 sysresccd kernel: [ 3582.316054] usb 2-6: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
Aug 20 00:58:17 sysresccd kernel: [ 3582.322051] usb 2-6: New USB device found, idVendor=04b4, idProduct=8613
Aug 20 00:58:17 sysresccd kernel: [ 3582.322054] usb 2-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0,
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Is there a way to use this hard disk at this point?
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Nov 18, 2010
What am I doing wrong here ? Shredding a directory with files is incredibly slow. If I create a file of similar size it is around 1000 times faster. Filesystem is ext4, OS is Slack current. Looking at top it shows shred's status as 'D' which, according to the man page, means uninterruptible sleep ! Also /usr/bin/time shows around 10 minutes but that time was printed on stdout approx. 7 minutes before the command prompt reappeared !
Code:
[virgil@thunderbird2:~/q] $ du -sh
336M.
[virgil@thunderbird2:~/q] $ find . -type d | wc
160 160 12038
[virgil@thunderbird2:~/q] $ find . -type f | wc
6721 6721 687549
[virgil@thunderbird2:~/q] $ /usr/bin/time find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -r shred -zu
0.00user 0.00system 10:11.76elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 3616maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+285minor)pagefaults 0swaps
[virgil@thunderbird2:~]
[virgil@thunderbird2:~] $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=qwerty bs=336M count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
352321536 bytes (352 MB) copied, 51.6693 s, 6.8 MB/s
[virgil@thunderbird2:~]
[virgil@thunderbird2:~] $ ls -l qwerty
-rw-r--r-- 1 virgil virgil 352321536 2010-11-18 15:13 qwerty
[virgil@thunderbird2:~]
[virgil@thunderbird2:~] $ /usr/bin/time shred -zu qwerty
0.92user 0.78system 0:16.94elapsed 10%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2912maxresident)k
0inputs+2752528outputs (0major+235minor)pagefaults 0swaps
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Consider the following:
mount | grep home
type reiserfs
rm -Rf /home/user/over_9000_little_and_big_super_secret_files/
# oops, I should have shredded it instead.
How can I properly and securely "initialize free space" to ensure that no additional info can be restored restored by digging in free space (Preferrably without stopping or disturbing the filesystem much.) Is dd if=/dev/frandom of=/home/qqqqq really secure for this (tails, journal, etc.)?
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[Code]....
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[Code]....
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