[ubuntu-uk] Shredding HDD data

[Bill Cumming]

if you install "dcfldd" instead you get some feed back it's basically dd
with a few tweeks.

On 11 August 2010 11:41, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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