Nuke is a program that can be used to destroy the contents of a given drive. It zeroes out a given drive and writes random bytes for further data destruction.
Usage: nuke <drive 1> [drive 2] ...
Destroy the contents of a drive/drives.
Options:
-z, -0, --zero Don't write random bytes to drive
-n, --repeat Number of times to repeat the process (defaults to 1)
-Y Don't ask for confirmation (NOT RECOMMENDED)
-h, --help Display this help and exit
-V, --version Display version information and exit
Examples:
nuke /dev/sdb
nuke /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
nuke -z /dev/sdb
nuke -n 2 /dev/sdb
NOTE: This program requires root privileges to run.
- GCC
- GNU Make
- PyQt5 (for the GUI front-end)
NOTE: At the moment, Nuke can only be installed and run on Linux.
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Download the source tree and change to the source directory.
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Run
makeif you only want the command-line utility. -
To compile the front-end, run
make ui.
Run sudo make install to make and install Nuke.
Run sudo make uninstall to uninstall Nuke.