Hi Robert,
FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think I found a very serious bug with shred.
>
> Scientific Linux SL release 4.1 (Beryllium)
> Kernel 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL on an i686
>
> This is what I did (as root):
>
> cd /mirror_disk/sauvegarde/data/mirror_disk/sauvegarde/data
> time find . -exec shred -n 3 -z -u {} \;
>
> on a directory of ~ 14 Gb in a 1 Tb firewire external disk
> mounted on /mirror_disk/
>
> The command did what I expected but I discovered that several
> other files in other partitions were *EMPTIED* !!!
>
I would assume that your /mirror_disk/sauvegarde/data contained some
links pointing to the /usr/bin, and shred thoroughly removed the targets
these links pointed to.
Matthias