shredos.x86_64 VS progress

For standard disk wipe ShredOS which includes hdparm so you can use the drives firmware ATA Secure ERASE function

You could try ShredOS

ShredOS Disk Eraser provides a way to securely wipe disks for all Intel 64-bit processors as well as other vendors with compatible 64-bit chips. catherder9000 adds, "number of options including a USB boot drive (supports UEFI). It's nwipe, which is the linux open source of DBAN. Works great with external USB docks too if you're using a 1-4 bay one to mass wipe. You can also use ShredOS on headless systems or systems with faulty display hardware as it includes a user-enabled telnet server."

ShredOS seems pretty feature complete: https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64

ShredOS, number of options including a USB boot drive (supports UEFI). It's nwipe which is the linux open source of DBAN. Works great with external USB docks too if you're using a 1-4 bay one to mass wipe.

As an alternative, I'd recommend ShredOS. Basically does the same thing and is much faster (aaaaaand cue the PTSD I have from having to maintain a fork of it I created for my organization after I convinced everyone to ditch DBAN).

GitHub - PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64: Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe

You could use this: https://github.com/Xfennec/progress

`progress` (https://github.com/Xfennec/progress) and similar can be very helpful too depending on the backup utilities being used (in my case often involving rsync) even if the processes normally have everything set to quiet so no progress information is automatically forthcoming.

pv's progress display is very useful in many contexts, it has been one if the first things I make sure is installed on a new system for years, though I have recently come across https://github.com/Xfennec/progress which is brilliant for some times when pv is not an option or when you want to watch the status of several things which aren't convenient to arrange together via tmux/byobu. Or just for when you forget to use PV and don't want to cancel to change the command.

this is awesome! can you add support for progress