[ubuntu-uk] Shredding HDD data

[Alan Pope]

On 11 August 2010 11:39, Dan Fish <dan at fishms.org> wrote:
> My only beef with dd is the lack of feedback - nothing appears to be
> happening. There's a replacement in the repos called dcfldd. Does a
> similar thing and accepts similar arguments but gives back a progress
> bar of sorts.

http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/2008/06/show-progress-during-dd-copy.html

Cheers,
Al.