Wiping disks
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HDD
nwipe
is a fork of dwipe
which is the utility used in the popular DBAN solution.
- Open "terminal emulator" from the application menu
- Run
sudo nwipe
in the terminal to launc our nwipe session - Navigate up and down the list with the arrow keys, select disks by size with the space bar.
- Removing extra disks from the machine may make this selection easier. Choosing the wrong disk will cause data loss
- You can change the wipe method by pressing
m
. DoD short is the default and recomended method. It makes 3 passes over the disk. - You can change the number of rounds by pressing
r
. This multiplies the method. Leaving DoD short and setting 2 rounds would make 6 passes (1 is recommended).
- Press capital
S
to start the process