[debbugs-tracker] bug#29317: closed (info shred:documentation feedback)

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> Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:38:09 +0100
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> hello,
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> - 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?
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#29317: info shred:documentation feedback Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 16:56:10 -0800 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0

On 16/11/17 03:38, kalle wrote:
> hello,
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> - 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
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