reHDD

Useful for:

• checking new drives for the first time
• checking used drives for their next live
• deleting a drive securely via overwriting

Screenshot

Debian Build Notes

• apt-get install ncurses-dev git make g++
• clone repo
• make release

Create Standalone with Debian

Instructions how to create a standalone machine that boots directly to reHDD. This is aimed for production use, like several drives a day shredding.

Software requirements

• apt-get install hwinfo
• wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/smartmontools/smartmontools_7.1-1_amd64.deb
• dpkg --install smartmontools_7.1-1_amd64.deb

Start reHDD after boot without login (as a tty shell)

nano /etc/systemd/system/reHDD.service

[Unit]
Description=Custom user interface on tty1
Conflicts=getty@tty1.service
Before=getty.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/root/reHDD
ExecStart=/root/reHDD/reHDD
StandardInput=tty
StandardOutput=tty
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
UtmpIdentifier=tty1
TTYPath=/dev/tty1
TTYReset=yes
TTYVHangup=yes
TTYVTDisallocate=yes
SendSIGHUP=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

nano /etc/systemd/system/reHDDSettings.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/usr/bin/bash /root/reHDDSettings.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

nano /root/reHDDSettings.sh

#!/bin/bash
dmesg -n 1 #disable overlay if a drive is attached/detached
rm -f /root/reHDD/reHDD.log

Make sure the binary reHDD is in /root/reHDD/ Add your system drive in /root/reHDD/ignoreDrives.conf like: /dev/sdX:e102f49d-5ed5-462b-94c5-ef66a4345671 Get your UUID via blkid /dev/sdX

systemctl enable reHDD.service

systemctl enable reHDDSettings.service