On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM Paws Prime via PLUG-discuss < [email protected]> wrote:
> Dang it! I spent almost a full day at a client's office and was so > pooped I totally spaced out about the PLUG meeting! > > This particular client has semi-retired and is closing his office. He > has a bunch of hardware that he needs to get rid of, and I was there > yesterday starting the process of backing up all of his information and > discussing what he should keep and what he should get rid of. I'll be > headed over there next Tuesday, August 19th, to wrap up the backups and > test some processes he will use when working from home on his laptop. If > there is anybody interested in what hardware he wants to give away, I'll > do a quick inventory and post it to the PLUG discussion list. I am sure you have this in your checklist. Nonetheless, make sure you *wipe* *all* the storage media (not just the files) using a live boot OS like 'dban <https://dban.org/>' or 'ShredOS (nwipe) <https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64>' This can be time consuming; depending on how many physical storage devices your client has, make enough bootable USB sticks to run the process in parallel. While dd, shred, wipe are OK to write random data on disks/files and are available in all Linux distros, I personally prefer to use a Live OS. For nvme storage devices, the erase process requires a few extra steps <https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64?tab=readme-ov-file#wipe-ssd-and-nvme-using-hdparm-and-nvme-cli> HTH -- Arun Khan
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