A Qnap NAS has a drive with some bad sectors, I want to RMA it, but before just want to figure out how to prepare a drive? It’s part of a raid 5 setup of 4 drives unencrypted. So I want to remove it and wipe it. Got a Linux machine I can use, but never done this before.

What are common Linux tools to do that sensibly?

  • Lemmchen@feddit.orgEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    shred

    Can also be used from KDE Partition Manager.

    Use LUKS encryption in the future.

    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      I assume in this context the benefit using LUKS is that even if someone does recover data from the drive, they’d just get encrypted data which is unreadable? If so, I hadn’t considered that before!