[Bug-ddrescue] Feature request - ddrescue

[Josh Lange]

DDRescue is a great program the help people recover data from a damaged
Hard Drive, but it seems that a tool like this could go a little
further. 


The next logical step after recovering data is to attempt to wipe the
drive, options like dd fail when trying to write data to a drive that is
generating io errors. It would be nice if a ddrescue would give an
option to do an agressive purge of the data on the disk in the same
fasion that it recovers data (multi pass, good sectors first, retries on
bad sectors, statistics on how many non wiped sectors exist on the disk,
etc).

Often, other methods of destroying data on a drive void various
warranties, and requires physical access, which is not always
possible/convienient (colocated servers, etc).


Thanks for reading my suggestion,

Josh Lange