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@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +NAME + deadshred - override the contents of a device that may be broken + +SYNOPSIS + deadshred device < random-source + +DESCRIPTION + The 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 deadshred utility will skip any section it fails + to override and retries it later. + +OPTIONS + No options are supported. + +OPERANDS + The following operand is supported: + + file + The file to override. Must be either a regular file or + a block device. + +STDIN + The standard input shall be an unless source of either random + data or a particular byte to fill the device with. + +NOTES + While the 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. + +SEE ALSO + dd(1), shred(1) |