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DBAN can be booted from a CD, DVD, USB flash drive or diskless using a Preboot Execution Environment. It is based on Linux and supports PATA (IDE), SCSI and SATA hard drives. DBAN can be configured to automatically wipe every hard disk that it sees on a system or entire network of systems, making it very useful for unattended data destruction ...
Linux: Yes internal [9] not directly supported without scripting nwipe: Martijn van Brummelen GNU GPL v2: Linux: Yes external Yes Parted_Magic: Patrick Verner, Parted Magic LLC uses mostly GPL components with published source, a few proprietary components, and fee for media/download [10] [11] OS independent, based on Slackware Linux: Yes ...
nwipe is a Linux computer program used to securely erase data. It is maintained by Martijn van Brummelen and is free software , released under the GNU General Public License 2.0 licence. The program is a fork of the dwipe program that was previously incorporated in the DBAN secure erase disk.
Data erasure (sometimes referred to as data clearing, data wiping, or data destruction) is a software-based method of data sanitization that aims to completely destroy all electronic data residing on a hard disk drive or other digital media by overwriting data onto all sectors of the device in an irreversible process. By overwriting the data on ...
util-linux project Free software Yes Unix-like: FIPS: Arno Schäfer Free software No MS-DOS: GNOME Disks: Red Hat: Free software Yes Linux: GNU Parted CLI-only (GUIs: Gparted, QtParted) The GParted Project Free software Yes Linux GParted (GUI for GNU Parted) The GParted Project Free software Yes Linux (Live CD is independent) March 28, 2022 ...
The installed disks and their associated volumes and/or partitions can be viewed using these commands: list disk list volume list partition The sel command will select them. The command clean will perform a "quick" disk wipe, and clean all zeroes out the entire partition/disk.
Formatting a disk for use by an operating system and its applications typically involves three different processes. [e]Low-level formatting (i.e., closest to the hardware) marks the surfaces of the disks with markers indicating the start of a recording block (typically today called sector markers) and other information like block CRC to be used later, in normal operations, by the disk ...
The functions currently supported by Disk Utility include: [1] Creation, conversion, backup, compression, and encryption of logical volume images from a wide range of formats read by Disk Utility to .dmg or, for CD/DVD images, .cdr; Mounting, unmounting and ejecting disk volumes (including both hard disks, removable media, and disk volume images)