On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:57:52PM -0500, Aaron Peterson wrote: > I don't know if this is a problem specific to CURRENT or not, but bcwipe > seems to do the right thing when wiping files. however, when using the -b > option to wipe an entire block device, there is an "Invalid Argument" > error, and I don't understand exactly why... > > fbsd52# bcwipe -bvmd /dev/da0 > Wipe /dev/da0 (y/[n]/a)?a > Wiping device /dev/da0 > Writing to /dev/da0: Invalid argument > fbsd52# bcwipe -bvm3 /dev/fd0 > Wipe /dev/fd0 (y/[n]/a)?a > Wiping device /dev/fd0 > Writing to /dev/fd0: Invalid argument > fbsd52# > > these are examples of commands verbatim from the bcwipe man page... The > devices exist in /dev/, and there is a floppy in the drive... This is the > dmesg for the USB hard disk that I'm ultimately trying to wipe... Why - if the device is there you have a node in /dev. If you don't have the device then there is no node. See devfs(8) -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso_at_bwct.de info_at_bwct.deReceived on Thu Feb 19 2004 - 11:15:40 UTC
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