26 Jan
2019
26 Jan
'19
1:31 a.m.
On 1/25/19 10:58 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I'll give dd a try; but I don't see offhand why dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdc bs=1M should be quicker than what I'm using now, namely shred -v -n1 /dev/sdc
I don't know how it generates the data to overwrite with. Does it use a lot of CPU? If not, then dd will probably not be faster, you might be at maximum speed for the drive. However, shred is intended for files, not partitions.