general_commands
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| Fill the disk with all zeros (may take a while; it switches every bit to 0): | Fill the disk with all zeros (may take a while; it switches every bit to 0): | ||
| - | ``` | + | |
| + | < | ||
| dd if=/ | dd if=/ | ||
| # replace X with the target drive letter. | # replace X with the target drive letter. | ||
| - | ``` | + | </ |
| To secure wipe, populate the entire disk with random data rather than zeros (takes longer): | To secure wipe, populate the entire disk with random data rather than zeros (takes longer): | ||
| - | ``` | + | < |
| dd if=/ | dd if=/ | ||
| # replace X with the target drive letter. | # replace X with the target drive letter. | ||
| - | ``` | + | </ |
| - | Sincd `dd` does not have a verbose setting, you can get some visual feedback with this (run each in a separate term window): | + | Sincd '' |
| - | ``` | + | < |
| watch vmstat -d | watch vmstat -d | ||
| htop | htop | ||
| - | ``` | + | </ |
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