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?

Thanks - jon

Hi Jon,

   Figure out what your /dev/sdxx is.

   as root (#):
       dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdxx

This will also discharge all your cells too.

-T

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