07-13-2009
File System Type From File Path?
I'm writing a gui for the core utility shred. I want to be able to warn the user if they are about to shred a file that is on a journaled file system. In order to do this, I must learn the file system type of the path they are about to shred.
Is there a way in Unix to:
1. query a specific file to know it's partition? (i.e., /dev/sda2)
2. then, query the partition to know it's file system type? (i.e., ext3, NTFS, etc.)
Possible?
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SHRED(1) FSF SHRED(1)
NAME
shred - delete a file securely, first overwriting it to hide its contents
SYNOPSIS
shred [OPTIONS] FILE [...]
DESCRIPTION
Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-f, --force
change permissions to allow writing if necessary
-n, --iterations=N
Overwrite N times instead of the default (25)
-s, --size=N
shred this many bytes (suffixes like K, M, G accepted)
-u, --remove
truncate and remove file after overwriting
-v, --verbose
show progress
-x, --exact
do not round file sizes up to the next full block
-z, --zero
add a final overwrite with zeros to hide shredding
- shred standard output
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Delete FILE(s) if --remove (-u) is specified. The default is not to remove the files because it is common to operate on device files like
/dev/hda, and those files usually should not be removed. When operating on regular files, most people use the --remove option.
CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption: that the filesystem overwrites data in place. This is the traditional way
to do things, but many modern filesystem designs do not satisfy this assumption. The following are examples of filesystems on which shred
is not effective:
* log-structured or journaled filesystems, such as those supplied with
AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)
* filesystems that write redundant data and carry on even if some writes
fail, such as RAID-based filesystems
* filesystems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS server
* filesystems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS
version 3 clients
* compressed filesystems
In addition, file system backups and remote mirrors may contain copies of the file that cannot be removed, and that will allow a shredded
file to be recovered later.
AUTHOR
Written by Colin Plumb.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for shred is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and shred programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info shred
should give you access to the complete manual.
shred (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 SHRED(1)