incremental disk wipe?

[Petter Adsen]

On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 12:03:38 +0530
Jatin khatri <khatri.jatin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> |

If you do a "sudo apt-get install pv", then you can do:

pv -tpreb /dev/zero | dd of=/dev/sdX bs=128M

to get a progress meter, so at least you have some idea how long it's
going to take.

Petter

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