How to tune shred to run faster on Solaris 8

[Patrick . Ko]

I would like to get in touch with Colin Plumb regarding "shred".
Recently I am trying to shred data for my company but when we try to run
"shred" with 5 passes, it does not return after 4 days.  We have a tight
deadline to complete this exercise for all servers.

I want to see if Colin can give me any advice.  The platform is Solaris
8 on SunFire machines (V420, V280).

-pko-

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