minus-squareTiTeY`@lemmy.home.titey.nettoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Proper HDD clear process?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·11 months agoUsually, I use shred: shred -vfz -n 2 /dev/device-name -v: verbose mode -f: forces the write permissions if missing -z: zeroes the disk in the final pass -n 2: 2 passes w/ random data linkfedilink
Usually, I use
shred
:shred -vfz -n 2 /dev/device-name
-v
: verbose mode-f
: forces the write permissions if missing-z
: zeroes the disk in the final pass-n 2
: 2 passes w/ random data