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My Disk Archiving Workflow
Identifying disk
ls -lh /dev/disk/by-id/ata-*
Creating disk image
ddrescue /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SB8000NM1234-123456_DEADCAFE ata-SB8000NM1234-123456_DEADCAFE.img ata-SB8000NM1234-123456_DEADCAFE.txt
Creating hash and recovery records
par2 create -r3 -b3000 ata-SB8000NM1234-123456_DEADCAFE.img.par2 ata-SB8000NM1234-123456_DEADCAFE.img
Wiping disk
badblocks -s -v -b 4096 -t random -o badblocks.txt -w /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SB8000NM1234-123456_DEADCAFE