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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:14:36 UTC
Hi all, I'd like to have an answer on a secure FreeBSD way to erase SSDs before giving these away to someone for reusing it. Is the following enough to protect confidential data previously stored there? 1) dd : overwriting with random bits (complete capacity) 2) gpart create 3) gpart add 4) newfs Details for an example with /dev/ada1 see below. Thanks a lot, Damian # fdisk ada1 ******* Working on device /dev/ada1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=484521 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=484521 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 238 (0xee),(EFI GPT) start 1, size 488397167 (238475 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 2; end: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED> # gpart show ada1 => 40 488397088 ada1 GPT (233G) 40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K) 1064 480246784 2 freebsd-ufs [bootme] (229G) 480247848 8149280 3 freebsd-swap (3.9G) # dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/ada1 bs=512 count=488397088 # gpart create -s gpt ada1 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs ada1 # newfs -U /dev/ada1p1