Am 2007-11-07 13:42:57, schrieb Haines Brown: > I have a SamDisk USB-key filled with photos (.png) which I used for a > slide show. I now would like to delete them, but whenever the device > is rebooted, the files reappear. > > $ ls -la /media/usb-key > rwxr-xr-x file.png /brownh/brownh > ...
Hmmm
> However, if I unmount and remount, the files are back (and shown in
> green in xterm, which is not normal).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oh yes, it is normal, siche your USB-Key has a MSDOS filesysten
which mean, the executable (under dos/Win ARCHIVE) flag is set...
> $ shred -fuv /media/usb-key *.*
> shred: /media/usb-key/<filename>: pass 1/25 (random)...
> shred: /media/usb-key/<filename> : fdatasync failed:
> Input/output error
> shred: /media/usb-key/<filename>: pass 2/25 (888888)...
> shred: /media/usb-key/<filename>: fdatasync failed:
> Input/output error
You must mount the USB-Key with the right UID/GID...
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Tamay Dogan Network
Open Hardware Developer
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