DDRescue is a great program the help people recover data from a damaged Hard Drive, but it seems that a tool like this could go a little further.
The next logical step after recovering data is to attempt to wipe the drive, options like dd fail when trying to write data to a drive that is generating io errors. It would be nice if a ddrescue would give an option to do an agressive purge of the data on the disk in the same fasion that it recovers data (multi pass, good sectors first, retries on bad sectors, statistics on how many non wiped sectors exist on the disk, etc). Often, other methods of destroying data on a drive void various warranties, and requires physical access, which is not always possible/convienient (colocated servers, etc). Thanks for reading my suggestion, Josh Lange _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
