Tuesday, 29 December 2020

use dd to wipe drive

DD can be used to overwrite a disk. Doesn't matter it has protected partition or not. Replace the X for the disk to be wiped. Dd overwrites the disk with zero and allows us to format the device. 

//ubuntu terminal
//list disk
sudo lsblk

//wipe disk
sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=4k

//watch dd progress
//open another terminal
sudo watch -n5 'sudo kill -USR1 $(pgrep ^dd)'

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