how to start nwipe [SOLVED]

[52ROSt]

LM 19.1 Cinnamon

I installed from the SW Manager "nwipe" and understand that this is terminal application.

How do I start this program in the terminal?

Thanks for your help in advance.

[Neil Edmond]

Open a terminal window, then type nwipe and press enter.

[philotux]

I have never used this CLI tool (sort of disclaimer), but you can have a read on it:

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nwipe -h

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man nwipe

Maybe you could consider "Disks" utility, which have an option to overwrite all existing data on a device with zeroes while formatting it:

disks3.png

[52ROSt]

Thanks for your replies. Disk is "nuked"

Typing only "nwipe" even used with sudo does not work.

Key was

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nwipe -h

This list all parameters which are possible. I used:

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sudo nwipe --method=gutmann [device] 

The Disk tool can also be used, I used this first with writing zeros but wanted to understand the nwipe command.

[Neil Edmond]

Typing only "nwipe" even used with sudo does not work.

Hmm...works for me (without sudo). Anyway, glad you got it going. Sorry I wasn't much help.

[52ROSt]

Typing only

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nwipe

was my first attempt as well.

As it did not work, I posted my question here.

Which LM version are you using?

[52ROSt]

@Neil Edmond

Sorry I wasn't much help.

Don't worry you did what works at your machine. I appreciated this.

[Neil Edmond]

Which LM version are you using?

Several... but was on 17.3 Rosa Mate 64-bit when I tested launching nwipe.