abhishekdvg / nuke

A program to 'nuke' storage devices.

Nuke

Nuke is a program that can be used to destroy the contents of a given drive. It zeroes out a given drive and writes random bytes for further data destruction.

Usage: nuke <drive 1> [drive 2] ...

Destroy the contents of a drive/drives.

Options:
	-z, -0, --zero	Don't write random bytes to drive
	-n, --num-reps	Number of times to repeat the process (defaults to 1)
	-Y		Don't ask for confirmation (NOT RECOMMENDED)
	-h, --help	Display this help and exit
	-V, --version	Display this version information and exit

Examples:
	nuke /dev/sdb
	nuke /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
	nuke -z /dev/sdb
	nuke -n 2 /dev/sdb

NOTE: This program requires root privileges to run.

Requirements

1. GCC
2. GNU Make
3. PyQt5 (for the GUI front-end)

Installation

At the moment, Nuke can only be installed and run on Linux. Download the source tree and change to the source directory. Run make install to make and install Nuke.