incremental disk wipe?

[Jatin khatri]

On Saturday 07 March 2015 11:39 AM, rikona wrote:
> I was checking the timing of securely wiping large disks - looks like
> it takes a looooong time. Is there a way to do this in smaller
> 'chunks', that might complete in an hour or so, eventually filling up
> the entire disk? I'm not hiding plots from NSA, so I don't need
> extreme security - just enough to discourage easy-tech snoops. :-))
>
how about ?

|sudo shred -v /dev/sdX

where X= your disk
|


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