Ubuntu
ubiquity package

add option to partition manager to scrub drive

Bug #198577 reported by Jerome Haltom
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Expired
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

An option should be made available near the option to Use the whole disk to scrub the existing disk using the scrub command. This would make conversions of donated machines "better".

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Jerome Haltom (wasabi) wrote :

Command is actually shred.

Evan (ev)
Changed in ubiquity:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in ubiquity:
status: New → Confirmed
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Brian Pitts (bpitts) wrote :

At Free IT Athens, we do this by adding the secure-delete package to the live cd and preseeding the following as part of ubiquity/success_command.

sfill -llv /target; \
swapoff /dev/sda5 && sswap -llv /dev/sda5 && swapon /dev/sda5; \

In order to see the progress, it's necessary to have something like

exec < /dev/tty6 > /dev/tty6; \
chvt 6; \

before you call sfill. Integration in Ubiquity would be certainly be preferable to this hack.

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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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