CiprianDorinCraciun/Notes/Public/Shredding

Shredding

Tools

• wipe;

• shred (part of coreutils);

• badblocks (part of e2fsprogs);

• dd (part of coreutils);

Snippets

• using badblocks on a block-device:

  • badblocks -v -s -b 4096 -c 256 -w -- /dev/__device__

• using dd on a block-device:

  • dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/__device__ bs=1M iflag=fullblock conv=notrunc,nocreat,notrunc