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martijnvanbrummelen / nwipe

nwipe secure disk eraser
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Wipe finishes instantly & says success #91

Closed PartialVolume closed 5 years ago

PartialVolume commented 6 years ago

This issue describes inconsistencies between how the command line options work and how changing options via the GUI work.

If you use the following command:

sudo ./nwipe --method=quick --rounds=1 --verify=all --noblank

nwipe will appear to instantly wipe the disc and says success in the GUI. Obviously incorrect !

While if you use the same command but in the GUI switch the verify off then back on, the blanking pass is automatically switched on and the wipe will operate correctly

The expected behavior for the command 

sudo ./nwipe --method=quick --rounds=1 --verify=all --noblank

should be a single zero pass, verified with no additional blanking pass.

This is similar and possibly related to #17

Legogizmo commented 5 years ago

This and issue #17 was fixed with PR #128 and can be closed.

PartialVolume commented 5 years ago

Thanks.