On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:45:25 -0800, 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? I notice that no one even mentioned DBAN. Is it just not fast, or there some other consideration? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. _______________________________________________ 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
