On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 05:50:20PM -0000, Beartooth wrote: > 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?
Having used DBAN once, I'm not a very authoritative voice, but... I found that depending on the options you choose, it can also be quite slow. one 250GB drive I wiped with it took more than 12 hours. So for the next one I wanted to wipe I just used /dev/zero, which should be adequate because I was just going to install something else over it anyway. > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User > Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > 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@lists.fedoraproject.org -- ---- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) ----------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org
