From f45a07a8f0e120ce2c5587f7cf24d88bce22ce7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:25:32 +0200 Subject: Add README and deadshred.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée --- README | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f9de47b --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -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) -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2