{"id":2260,"date":"2019-01-09T21:21:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T21:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2019-01-09T21:23:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T21:23:43","slug":"secure-erase-hard-drive-using-dd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/secure-erase-hard-drive-using-dd\/","title":{"rendered":"Secure Erase Hard Drive using DD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The following commands are dangerous!  Proceed with caution!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Change \/dev\/sdX to your drive. Make sure you get the correct drive, or you could wipe you main system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">dd if=\/dev\/zero of=\/dev\/sdX bs=1M status=progress<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The status=progress part shows how much dd has writen.  Helpful to gauge how far along it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want a more secure way to erase the drive, change zero to random.  Makes it slower, but should be more secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">dd if=\/dev\/random of=\/dev\/sdX bs=1M status=progres<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Side note, these commands should work in macOS, but you may need to drop the status=progress option.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following commands are dangerous! Proceed with caution! Change \/dev\/sdX to your drive. Make sure you get the correct drive, or you could wipe you main system. dd if=\/dev\/zero of=\/dev\/sdX bs=1M status=progress The status=progress part shows how much dd has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/secure-erase-hard-drive-using-dd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,573],"tags":[102,569,570,571,572],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-command-line","category-linux","category-security","tag-dd","tag-erase","tag-secure","tag-wipe","tag-zero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}