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Securely wiping NVMe SSD drives using Linux (Ubuntu/Debian shown but others are supported)
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In order to securely wipe an NVME drive you can use the nvme-cli package that provides the nvme command nvme only exists in the root path so you have to use sudo nvme.

For Debian you need to add jessie-backports (on jessie) and it may be in the newer version default repos. For Ubuntu it should be available in the default repos from Xenial onwards, there may be a PPA if you need it on earlier versions.

You can find your devices with sudo nvme list and securely format with sudo nvme /dev/nvme0n1 --ses=1. You can also explicitly add a namespace but I haven't seen or setup a drive with multiple yet.

Soon I'd like to make an extremely tiny netbootable image with Alpine or Debian to boot with https://netboot.xyz as pulling down the Debian LiveCD and adding the extra repository just to run a couple commands was overkill.

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