On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 21:58 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 1/25/19 6:45 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I'm using shred on some 2Tb USB disk drive that I plan to give away. So > > far it has taken 8 hours to shred 50% of the drive, which implies that > > it will take about 16 hours to shred the whole drive. I have another 2 > > drives to go. > > > > Is there a quicker way to protect my data when I give the drives away, > > other than smashing the drives to bits? > > If you don't have state secrets on your hard drive and you don't expect > that the NSA will be using million dollar equipment to scan your drive, > a single pass with "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdx bs=1M" should be > sufficieshred -v -n1 /dev/sdcnt and will write at the max speed of > the hard drive. I'll give dd a try; but I don't see offhand why dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdc bs=1M should be quicker than what I'm using now, namely shred -v -n1 /dev/sdc Thanks to all for your help - jon _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
