Installing Debian. If I’d realised the installer would want to wipe the drive with random data first I might have chosen to install on the 1TB drive instead of the 2TB...
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You can cancel the secure wipe at any time
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Just checked the almighty DDG and looks like you’re right. Here goes. πŸ˜‰
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I install Debian a *lot* :D
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Thanks for the pointer, that saved me a ton of time. I rarely install to be honest - the systems I tend to use these data are either dist-upgrade’d from something years old or provisioned droplets from DO. :)
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I haven't installed it in years. Closest recently was a debootstrap of aarch64 into a fresh ZFS filesystem for a test Pi 4 network boot... It now wipes all the discs?
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Replying to @dickontoo @arafel2
If you turn on encrypted disk, it fills the disk with random so that it doesn't leak how much of the disk is in use

Oct 17, 2019 Β· 9:48 AM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone @arafel2
I see. Sensible.
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Agreed it’s sensible on the whole; I didn’t really have a day to wait for it to finish however... :)