Darik's Boot and Nuke Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Darik's Boot and Nuke for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is ABAN, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Darik's Boot and Nuke and six of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Darik's Boot and Nuke are Shredos, BCWipe, nwipe and wipe.

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    ABAN

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    ABAN is a boot CD/USB stick for easily and securely wiping all the disks in a machine. Boot disks are available for both 32-bit and 64-bit machines. As a boot disk, it doesn't care what OS is on the machine (or if there is any OS at all).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Shredos

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    Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe.

    5 Shredos alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Anonymised data mode to hide serial number & host info.
     
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    BCWipe

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    BCWipe data wiping software enables you to permanently delete files selectively so that they can never be recovered or undeleted. BCWipe embeds itself within Windows and can be activated from the Explorer FILE Menu OR from the context (right-click) menu OR from BCWipe Task...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    nwipe

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    nwipe is a fork of the dwipe command originally used by Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN). nwipe was created out of a need to run the DBAN dwipe command outside of DBAN, in order to allow its use with any host distribution, thus giving better hardware support.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    wipe

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    Command-line tool for securely erasing files from magnetic media with multiple overwrites, open source under GPL, supports Linux, BSD, Solaris, and more, no graphical interface, precompiled for many distributions, for secure data removal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    ErAce

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    ErAce is software that will over write the hard drive 1-100 times. So it fullfills the strictest security standards i.e. DOD 5220.22-M. In that way it is impossible to recover data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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