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reHDD

Useful for:

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

Screenshot

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Debian Build Notes

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

Create Standalone with Debian 11

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

  • Start reHDD after boot without login (as a tty1 shell)
  • Start dmesg after boot without login (as a tty2 shell)
  • Start htop after boot without login (as a tty3 shell)
  • Upload reHDD log every 12h if wanted

Software requirements

  • apt-get install hwinfo smartmontools curl

Installation

clone this repo into /root/

cd /root/reHDD/

make release

bash scripts/install_reHDD.bash

If you want to upload the logs, edit scripts/reHDDLogUploader.bash with your nextcloud token

Add your system drive in /root/reHDD/ignoreDrives.conf like: e102f49d Get the first 8 Bytes from your UUID via blkid /dev/sdX

reboot

Build docs

make docs

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