DeviceShred — Secure Removable Wiper

DeviceShred is a Qt-based desktop application for securely wiping removable storage devices (USB sticks, SD cards, external drives, etc.) on Linux.

Features

• System disks hidden → prevents accidental formatting.

• Wipe methods:

  • Fill with zeros
  • Fill with random data (/dev/urandom)

• TRIM/BLKDISCARD support → faster cleanup on supported devices.

• Configurable block size (256 KiB – 16 MiB).

• Modern, animated UI (Qt Widgets + QSS).

🛠 Build Instructions

Requirements

• Qt 5 or 6 (with development packages)
• C++17 compatible compiler (g++, clang)

On Ubuntu/Debian-based systems:

sudo apt install qtbase5-dev qt5-qmake g++ make

On Arch-based systems:

sudo pacman -S base-devel qt5-base clang

Steps

1. Generate Makefile with qmake:

qmake DeviceShred.pro

2. Build with make:

make

3. Run (with root privileges):

sudo ./DeviceShred