[solved] Wipe hdd with "wipe", extemly slow.

[frdo]

Hi

Trying to wipe a 250GB sata drive with wipe /dev/sdX command, says Wiping /dev/sda1, pass 0 in quick mode [ 81348 / 15262410] ETA 6d 1h if running in quick mode, and ETA 7 weeks, or even more, to run a full 34 passes. Which doesn't seem right.

Anyway, when doing 7-passes in DBAN it takes about 12h for the same disk, sure I could go for DBAN but I want to be able to use my computer at the same time. (It's not my system disk i'm trying to wipe)

//frdo

[Buzzsaw]

I think 'dd' and 'shred' are better for wiping.

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sudo shred -n 1 -v /dev/sdxy
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdxy bs=1M

[frdo]

I think 'dd' and 'shred' are better for wiping.

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sudo shred -n 1 -v /dev/sdxy
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdxy bs=1M

Thanks alot! Shred works great!

//frdo