OS: Fedora 34 As shown in the lsblk output below, I have 3 NVME SSDs and 4 Mechanical drives attached to my desktop. My OS (Fedora WS 34) is installed in /dev/sdd which is a 250GB Samsung SSD. I want to clean up /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, /dev/nvme0n1, /dev/nvme1n1, /dev/nvme2n1 drives as if i…

To overwrite the partition, only the first 512bytes are needed to be zeroed. We do not need to zero out the whole disk.

Cleaning up disks in Fedora

sampsonf (Sampson Fung) May 30, 2021, 4:32pm 11

Yes, we can use smartctl or hdparm to do secure erase, no Disk vendor tools are needed.

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