Script to write random data to a hard drive using openssl

The script I posted on how to write random data to the hard drive was kinda buggy..

Here is a better version, that actually stop when it finishes. It also shows the progress and does some safety checking (It’s weird, but I actually don’t enjoy much of this. I like the feeling of having to be a lot careful at the console. Sorry, can’t explain)

I also removed a lot of quotes I found unnecessary (a thing that surely would chock the folks at #bash @ irc.freenode.org). So I bet there is some bug hidden that I couldn’t spot. Use at your own risk

#!/bin/bash

# The author of this script, Elias Amaral,
# claims no copyright over it.

# http://iamstealingideas.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/writing-random-data-to-a-hard-drive-again

msg() {
  printf "\n - $1\n\n" $2
}

mbs=4 # 4mb
blocksize=$(($mbs * 1024 * 1024))

dev=$1

if [[ -z $dev ]]; then
  msg "usage: $0 <device>"; exit
elif [[ ! -b $dev ]]; then
  msg "$dev: not a block device"; exit
elif [[ ! -w $dev ]]; then
  msg "$dev: no write permission"; exit
elif grep -q $dev /etc/mtab; then
  msg "$dev: mounted filesystem on device, omgomg!"; exit
fi

cat <<end
This program writes random data to a hard disk.
It is intended to be used before storing encrypted data.
It may contain bugs (but seems to work for me).

It seems you have chosen to wipe data from the disk $dev.
Here is the partition table of this disk:
end

fdisk -l $dev

echo
echo 'Are you sure you want to proceed?'

msg 'WARNING: IT WILL DESTROY ALL DATA ON THE DISK'

read -p 'Type uppercase yes if you want to proceed: ' q

if [[ $q != YES  ]]; then
  exit
fi

while
  echo $i > step.new
  mv step.new step

  msg 'Writing at offset %s' $(($mbs * $i))M

  openssl rand \
          -rand /dev/urandom \
          $blocksize | \

  dd of=$dev \
     bs=$blocksize \
     seek=$i
do
  let i++
done

msg Finished.

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