#The function for writing random data to the disk.
def random():
print ""
os.system("/sbin/fdisk -l")
print ""
print "Please choose a device to kill. Remember if you want to"
print "wipe the whole drive and not just a partition, you can"
print "remove the number appended. Example /dev/sdc1 becomes /dev/sdc ."
print ""
device=raw_input("Enter device: ")
print ""
count=input("How many times would you like to wipe the device? ")
print ""
print "Writing changes to disk. All data on %s will be lost."%(device)
print ""
raw_input("Press Enter to continue, or Ctrl+C to exit: ")
print ""
lap=1
for i in range(count):
print "Processing wipe count %s of %s..."%(lap, count)
os.system(("dd if=/dev/urandom of=%s")%(device))
lap=lap+1
I need to know how to substitute for the drive letter for the following drives.
sad-sdp
also will need to wipe data from /dev/md1
I believe that the script is sound just sub's
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