Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-5.3 Severity: minor There is a CAUTION section in the shred man page. It might be helpful to mention wear leveling semantics (generally) in the same section of the man page for users that didn't consider it, or users that are unaware. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear-levelling
There's the possibility that unerased data could be recovered off the device after using shred (depending on the passes, and the mechanism of wear leveling in play). Thanks, Scott Edwards -- Daxal Communications - http://daxal.com/?from=debian+bts -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-vserver-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
