On Wed, 31 May 2017, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > I've got an old RAID that I attached to a box. LSI card, and the > RAID has 12 drives, for a total RAID size of 9.1TB, I think. I > started shred /dev/sda the Friday before last... and it's still > running. Is this reasonable for it to be taking this long...? Unless you specified non-default options, shred overwrites each file three times -- and writing 27 TB to an old RAID array will be extremely slow. Also, shred has a builtin PRNG, and I'm not really sure how speedy it is. Still, 12 days seems like a really long time... -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/