From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:14:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (shred invocation): Mention that --exact
X-Git-Tag: v4.5.10~12
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=814ec278fc2c6ea7fb33af92e4b74ea6374c542c;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(shred invocation): Mention that --exact
is now the default for non-regular files.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index d72114a07a..4a5ce40977 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -6818,10 +6818,10 @@ Display status updates as sterilization proceeds.
 @itemx --exact
 @opindex -x
 @opindex --exact
-Normally, shred rounds the file size up to the next multiple of
-the filesystem block size to fully erase the last block of the file.
-This option suppresses that behavior.
-Thus, by default if you shred a 10-byte file on a system with 512-byte
+By default, @command{shred} rounds the size of a regular file up to the next
+multiple of the filesystem block size to fully erase the last block of the file.
+Use @option{--exact} to suppress that behavior.
+Thus, by default if you shred a 10-byte regular file on a system with 512-byte
 blocks, the resulting file will be 512 bytes long.  With this option,
 shred does not increase the size of the file.