Devotio is a secure disk erasure tool based on DoD 5220.22 M, ATA Secure Erase and encryption-based destruction.
It allows to select the specific device to erase or every disk on your system. It involves:
- HDD
- SSD
- LUKS
- USB
- RAM
- Zram
- Swap
The term Devotio, in Ancient Roman religion, was an extreme form of votum in which a Roman general vowed to sacrifice his own life in battle along with the enemy to chthonic gods in exchange for a victory.
Arch Linux runtime dependencies:
util-linux coreutils e2fsprogs cryptsetup hdparm openssl wipe
sudo bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Athena-OS/devotio/refs/heads/main/devotio.sh)"