Re: SDD partitioning and allocations

[Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>]

Hi,

On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 03:38:11PM +0200, Me wrote:
> On 2025-07-12 15:19, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Why do you recommend that? Are you assuming the SSDs songbird got are
> > used, or do you recommend that even for new SSDs -- if so, why?
> Not the OP, but you never know what's on the disks. It wouldn't be the first
> time new disks contain unwanted "presents" straight from the factory.

But for brand new devices I don't care what was on it before.

You can construct a hypothetical situation where:

1. I buy a new storage device but am unwittingly given a refurb one
   (that has had its diagnostic attributes erased to maintain the
   illusion that it is new).
2. For some reason law enforcement seize my computer, scan the storage
   and find something illegal that was on it already in unused space.

I personally don't regard that a possibility worth worrying about, but
okay for anyone that does, yes they would want to secure erase their
storage. For NVMe they would want to be sure to select Secure Erase
Setting 1 or 2.

    https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/nvme-cli/nvme-format.1.en.html

Thanks,
Andy

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