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I've never done this but according to the ArchWiki you should run shred -v /dev/sdX to write random data to the drive. You can also run e.g. shred -v /dev/sdX1 to wipe only a single partiti...
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Ordoviz
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2026-06-11T18:46:02Z (3 months ago)
I've never done this but according to the [ArchWiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Securely_wipe_disk#shred) you should run
shred -v /dev/sdX
to write random data to the drive. You can also run e.g.
shred -v /dev/sdX1
to wipe only a single partition. You can figure out the right device/partition ID by running `lsblk` or `df`. The `shred` command is part of GNU coreutils so it should available everywhere.