Burner

A rust utility for writing passes of zeros over single files, directories or disks.
Can also be used to write custom messages to the MBR to be displayed on reboot.

Build

Cargo build --release

Usage

Usage: burner [COMMAND]

Commands:
  file  Zero a single file
  dir   Zero all files in a directory
  mbr   Overwrite the MBR of a disk with a MSG
  disk  Zero a device and optionally overwrite the MBR with a custom message
  help  Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help     Print help
  -V, --version  Print version

passing the --passes option to the commands specifies how many passes of zeros to write.

Example

Zero disk and overwrite the MBR with a message "Hai Tavis...." and 1 pass of zero writes:

burner disk /dev/sda --msg "Hai Tavis..:)" --passes 1

bandicam.2024-06-30.20-57-40-401.mp4

Zero disk and overwrite the MBR with a message "Hai Tavis...." and 1 pass of zero writes with FIREEEEEEEEE:

burner disk /dev/sda --msg "Hai Tavis..:)" --passes 1 --fire

bandicam.2024-06-30.20-56-44-388.mp4

Reboot MSG

Reboot for the operator at the keyboard to be greeted with your msg and an unbootable OS :)