[CentOS] CentOS 6.9, shredding a RAID
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Wed May 31 15:39:19 UTC 2017
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...
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