1. Started constructing the code we will use to access
and write to /etc/nwipe/nwipe.conf. The initial use of
the nwipe.conf file will be to hold information such
as organisation and technician details that will be used
on the PDF report certificate. We are using the libconfig
library enable us to read and write the conf file. libconfig
is very well documented so editing the conf file manually
should be pretty straight forward. Nwipe will build a basic
conf file to give the user an idea how it should be edited.
2. Updated the README.md, showing the libconfig-dev, libconfig++-dev
needs to be installed.
3. Added some information about the use of hdparm to detect hidden
sectors and also noted that as from v0.35 nwipe will detect hidden
sectors, and may well have an extra method to expose those hidden#
sectors by restoring the DCO.
I was searching for a DBAN alternative that runs in a normal Linux distro so I can hot-swap drives and not hale to reboot the system. When I found nwipe, I went to install it in a grml live system. Turns out, nwipe ships with grml by default as you can see in [grml's dpkg.list](https://packages.grml.org/files/grml64-small_2021.07/dpkg.list).
It's not exactly the most up-to-date version (0.30-1+b2 for amd64) because grml is close to Debian stable. It even comes with the the small live system image.
Although reported in issues some time ago, make it clear nwipe doesn't support HDA and you will need to run hdparm in order to detect and if necessary correct the disks reported size prior to running nwipe.
* remove redundant paragraphs and information especially regarding ShredOS
* move certain paragraphs around to streamline the readme and for better readability
* update links
* some minor changes
If submitting pull requests, you must `make format` prior to commiting code and submitting a pull request otherwise you pull request will fail the CI that checks formatting.
Recompiled ShredOS with support for Smartmontools, C++ V7.x support. Nwipe in this version of ShredOS, now supports the display of serial numbers for USB bridges that have chipsets that support ATA pass through functionality.
