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| ====== Information ====== |
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| * Quick-commands to wipe drives and clear EFI variables |
| * Notably performs full-drive TRIMs for SSDs ([[https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/Memory_cell_clearing|ArchWiki]]) |
| * Useful to perform before OS installations |
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| * Ideally use [[distros:opensuse_tumbleweed_gnome#xfce|openSUSE Tumbleweed's latest XFCE image]] on LiveUSB due to it having up-to-date tools, a GUI, and USB data persistence ((can copy a command into Terminal and run it on one machine, boot the drive on another machine, and use Terminal history to re-run the command; it's quite convenient :p)) |
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====== Tools ====== | ====== Tools ====== |
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====== Drive Wipe ====== | ====== Drive Wipe ====== |
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| ===== Notes ===== |
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| ==== 4K Sectors ==== |
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| * https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/4739473745776804012/?tscn=1641033020#c3203747342915419588 |
| * https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3203745634155479256 |
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| * :!: Steam and Oculus were **known** to be broken with 4K sector size on Windows 11 |
| * Steam and Oculus work fine with 4K sector size on Windows 10 LTSC 2021 and Linux |
| * iTunes possibly fails with 4K sectors due to Bonjour and dnssd.dll ([[https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/setting-4k-sector-size-on-nvme-ssds-does-performance-actually-change.289757/page-3#post-4981622|thread]]) |
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| * See [[#sector_size]] to check or switch to available sector disk formats |
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===== nvme0 ===== | ===== nvme0 ===== |
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* :!: This is using LBA Format ''1'' for native 4K sector size | * :!: This is using LBA Format ''1'' for 4K sector size |
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<code>sudo blkdiscard --force --verbose '/dev/nvme0n1' && sync && sudo nvme format '/dev/nvme0' --force --namespace-id='1' --lbaf='1' --reset --ses='1' --pil='0' --pi='0' --ms='0' && sudo rm -f '/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/'* || sync</code> | <code>sudo blkdiscard --force --verbose '/dev/nvme0n1' && sync && sudo nvme format '/dev/nvme0' --force --namespace-id='1' --lbaf='1' --reset --ses='1' --pil='0' --pi='0' --ms='0' && sudo rm -f '/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/'* || sync</code> |
===== nvme1 ===== | ===== nvme1 ===== |
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<code>sudo blkdiscard --force --verbose '/dev/nvme1n1' && sync && sudo nvme format '/dev/nvme1' --force --namespace-id='1' --reset --ses='1' --pil='0' --pi='0' --ms='0' && sudo rm -f '/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/'* || sync</code> | * :!: This is using LBA Format ''1'' for 4K sector size |
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| <code>sudo blkdiscard --force --verbose '/dev/nvme1n1' && sync && sudo nvme format '/dev/nvme1' --force --namespace-id='1' --lbaf='1' --reset --ses='1' --pil='0' --pi='0' --ms='0' && sudo rm -f '/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/'* || sync</code> |
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<code>sudo blkdiscard --force --verbose '/dev/nvme1n1' && sync</code> | <code>sudo blkdiscard --force --verbose '/dev/nvme1n1' && sync</code> |
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<code>sudo nvme format '/dev/nvme1' --force --namespace-id='1' --reset --ses='1' --pil='0' --pi='0' --ms='0' && sync</code> | <code>sudo nvme format '/dev/nvme1' --force --namespace-id='1' --lbaf='1' --reset --ses='1' --pil='0' --pi='0' --ms='0' && sync</code> |
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<code>sudo wipefs --all --force '/dev/nvme1n1'</code> | <code>sudo wipefs --all --force '/dev/nvme1n1'</code> |