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how do I completely wipe all local drives using dd
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress
try on your machine
This command uses 'dd' to write zeros to the specified drive at '/dev/sdX' (replace 'X' with the appropriate drive letter). The 'if=/dev/zero' specifies the input file as zeros, while 'of=/dev/sdX' indicates the output file as the specified drive. 'bs=4M' sets the block size to 4 megabytes and 'status=progress' shows the progress of the operation.
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