==== Wipe a disk entirely (for privacy) using shred ==== \\ In case you want to sell a hard-drive, or just use it in other system and don't want it to have possible recoverable sensitive data, you may execute this command: shred -vfz /dev/sde Source: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/securely-erasing-a-disk-and-file-using-linux-command-shred/