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)