#!/usr/bin/perl -w # # Copyright (C) 2007, Joshua D. Abraham (jabra@spl0it.org) # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA # use strict; # # wipe_device - destory all the data on a device # # ex: $ ./wipe_device.pl /dev/sda1 13 # use strict; if ( -e $ARGV[0] && defined($ARGV[1]) ) { print "${ARGV}[1] needs to be a number\n" && exit unless ( $ARGV[1] =~ /\d+/ ); print "You need /dev/urandom\n" && exit unless ( -e '/dev/urandom' ); print "You need /dev/null\n" && exit unless ( -e '/dev/null' ); my $i = 1; for( 1..${ARGV}[1] ) { print "Wipe $i\n"; system("dd if=/dev/urandom of=${ARGV}[0]"); system("dd if=/dev/zero of=${ARGV}[0]"); $i++; } } else { print "Usage: $0 [device] [number of iterations]\n"; }