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Perfect solution.

Thank you very much.

Thanks. I feel like this may be solved soon. It does work for devices, but not the partitions on the device.

I have several partitions on sda that it did not return the size.

Also, is there a...

What I'm Doing:
I'm developing a python script that scans for all storage devices and their respective sizes. Python does not have a command that returns the /dev paths of storage devices or the...

When vfat format my128kb flash drive, shred works fine. But, when I format it using ext2 or ext3, shred() exits with this error:

shred: /dev/sdb1: pass 1/1 (random)...
shred: /dev/sdb1: error...

That's what I was looking for. Thanks rugdog.

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...

Thanks. I went to that link. I downloaded the latest coreutils. I extracted it and found the c code in the src folder.

Where can I find the source code of core utilities, such as shred or dd?

I'm interested in customizing them, recompiling and installing them in place of the standard versions.

I've created a wxpython gui for the shred command. I can successfully mix and match all the shred options except two: -size and --random-source. (Man page definitions below). -size and...