Wiping disks

Live systems

Dban
Shredos
- Live system that boots into nwipe
- Issues: On a 4GB laptop: nwipe getting out of memory error
- Last release 2025-01

Quick shed (seems to be much faster than a quick wipe):

time shred -v -n1 /dev/sda

~1,5h for a 230 GB disk attached over USB.

Gives an ETA

Quick wipe (1 time):

time wipe -p 1 /dev/sda

ETA 2d for 230 GB disk attached over USB.