Information about the package, nwipe, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The nwipe package is designed for, Securely erase disks using a variety of recognized methods.
Package Name:
nwipe
Summary:
Securely erase disks using a variety of recognized methods
Description:
The nwipe is a command that will securely erase disks using a variety of recognized methods. It is a fork of the dwipe command used by Darik's Boot and Nuke (dban). Nwipe was created out of need to run the DBAN dwipe command outside of DBAN. This allows it to use any host distribution which gives better hardware support. It is essentially the same as dwipe, with a few changes: - pthreads is used instead of fork - The parted library is used to detect drives - The code is designed to be compiled with gcc
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.21
Release:
3.el6
Size:
41 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the nwipe package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install nwipe
This command will install nwipe on the server.
yum remove nwipe
This command will un-install nwipe on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nwipe, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove nwipe
This command will un-install nwipe on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove nwipe when using the -y flag.
yum update nwipe
This command will update nwipe to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nwipe, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update nwipe
This command will update nwipe to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove nwipe when using the -y flag.
yum info nwipe
This command will show you core information about the nwipe package.
yum deplist nwipe
This command will show you the dependencies for nwipe. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update nwipe
This command will check if there is an update waiting on nwipe. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.