nwipe(1)
securely erase disks
SYNOPSIS
nwipe
[options] [device1] [device2] ...
DESCRIPTION
nwipe is a command that will securely erase disks using a variety of
recognised methods. It is a fork of the dwipe command used by Darik's Boot
and Nuke (dban). nwipe is included with partedmagic if want a quick and
easy bootable CD version. nwipe was created out of a need to run the DBAN
dwipe command outside of DBAN, in order to allow its use with any host
distribution, thus giving better hardware support. It is essentially the
same as dwipe, with a few changes:
- - pthreads is used instead of fork
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- - The parted library is used to detect drives
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- - The code is designed to be compiled with gcc
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- - SIGUSR1 can be used to log the stats of the current wipe
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OPTIONS
- -V, --version
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Prints the version number
- -h, --help
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Prints a help summary
- --autonuke
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If no devices have been specified on the command line, starts wiping all
devices immediately. If devices have been specified, starts wiping only
those specified devices immediately.
- --sync
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Open devices in sync mode
- --nowait
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Do not wait for a key before exiting (default is to wait).
- --nogui
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Do not show the GUI interface. Can only be used with the autonuke option.
Nowait option is automatically invoked with the nogui option.
SIGUSR1 can be used to retrieve the current wiping statistics.
- --verify=TYPE
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Whether to perform verification of erasure (default: last)
off - Do not verify
last - Verify after the last pass
all - Verify every pass
- -m, --method=METHOD
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The wiping method (default: dodshort).
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dod522022m / dod - 7 pass DOD 5220.22-M method
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dodshort / dod3pass - 3 pass DOD method
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gutmann - Peter Gutmann's Algorithm
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ops2 - RCMP TSSIT OPS-II
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random / prng / stream - PRNG Stream
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zero / quick - Overwrite with zeros
- -l, --logfile=FILE
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Filename to log to. Default is STDOUT
- -p, --prng=METHOD
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PRNG option (mersenne|twister|isaac)
- -r, --rounds=NUM
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Number of times to wipe the device using the selected method (default: 1)
