I was looking for a way to wipe a whole disk. With *nix systems, this is very easy. Simply make use of
. So to wipe
execute
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| dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1m |
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1m
Well, it’s not DOD clean but enough for my data. To overwrite a drive with random data to wipe the drive more securely
or
can be used for the input file.