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.TH DEADSHRED 1 deadshred
.SH NAME
deadshred \- override the contents of a device that may be broken
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B deadshred
.I device
[<
.IR random-source ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B deadshred
utility fills a file or block devices with
nonsense data. The utility is designed specifically for
erasing the content of failing hard disc drives, for this
purpose, the
.I deadshred
utility will skip any section it fails
to override and retries it later.
.SH OPTIONS
No options are supported.
.SH OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
.TP
.I file
The file to override. Must be either a regular file or
a block device.
.SH STDIN
Unless the standard input is a terminal device, it shall be an
unless source of either random data or a particular byte to
fill the device with.
.SH NOTES
While the
.B deadshred
utility is designed for block devices, it
also works for regular files, however does not provide options
that are useful for erasing regular files and is not designed
to work with filesystems that use copy on write.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR dd (1),
.BR shred (1)
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