smajkan/theend

Simple bash script that will wipe out HDD.

This is simple script bash script, which will use shred to wipe out HDD. NOTE: This script won't run immidietly!!! You will be prompted if you're sure about it.

Info on shred:

Syntax: shred [OPTIONS] FILE [...]

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First Header	Second Header
-f, --force	Change permissions to allow writing if necessary
-n, --iterations=N	Overwrite N times instead of the default (default = 3)
-s, --size=N	Shred this many bytes (suffixes like K,M,G accepted
-u, --remove	Truncate and remove file after overwriting
-v, --verbose	Show verbose information about shredding progress.
-x, --exact	Do not round file sizes up to the next full block; this is the default for non-regular files such as device names.
-z, --zero	Add a final overwrite with zeros to hide shredding.
-	Shred standard output

This script uses following OPTIONS: -vfzu -n 5, and it targets /dev/sda ...

What this means?

• It erases the whole drive.

You can and should edit the "sda" part, it may differ from device to device. So path is: /dev/sdx where x is the device letter. You can check your devices with command:

lsblk -f