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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: kalle <kalle <at> projektwerkstatt.de>

Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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bug#29317; Package coreutils. (Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:39:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: kalle <kalle <at> projektwerkstatt.de>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: info shred:documentation feedback
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:38:09 +0100
hello,

- at the sentence "by default does not truncate": what does truncating a
file means? Could this be described better in the manual?
-part "on a busy system": why is this written here? Is this a usual
method to overwrite content?

thanks,
kalle




Reply sent to Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>:
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Notification sent to kalle <kalle <at> projektwerkstatt.de>:
bug acknowledged by developer. (Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:57:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: kalle <kalle <at> projektwerkstatt.de>, 29317-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29317: info shred:documentation feedback
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 16:56:10 -0800
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On 16/11/17 03:38, kalle wrote:
> hello,
> 
> - at the sentence "by default does not truncate": what does truncating a
> file means? Could this be described better in the manual?
> -part "on a busy system": why is this written here? Is this a usual
> method to overwrite content?

truncate deallocates data.
remove deletes the reference to the data.

I suppose truncate is to deallocate, as unlink is to remove,
so the attached uses 'deallocate' instead of 'truncate'.

cheers,
Pádraig
[shred-deallocate.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sun, 07 Jan 2018 12:24:05 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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