Re: How to zero a failing disk drive before disposal?

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From: Tomek CEDRO <tomek_at_cedro.info>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:15:38 UTC

sysutils/ddrescue helped me to read broken drives several times, it
retries then skips on errors.

sysutils/e2fsprogs has program badblocks that can help disk rebuild in
read only mode, or make things worse depending how its broken, and you
can use it many loops of destructive write test to overwrite data.

the safest way to dispose sensitive data is by physical destruction :-)

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CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info