Safely Erasing User Data Of An Ssd - Huawei ES3000 V5 User Manual

ES3000 V5 NVMe PCIe SSD
User Guide
Do not read or write data when running this command. Otherwise, I/O errors may occur.
Example
# Perform secure formatting of the nvme0 SSD, and set the sector size to 512 B and metadata
size to 0 B.
[root@localhost tool]# hioadm format -d nvme0 -m 1 -t 0
WARNING! The format operation will clear all data.
WARNING! You have selected the format operation.
Proceed with the format? (Y|N): y
Formatting.... OK
The format operate succeeded.
Please remove and then install nvme driver or reboot the OS.
The current LBA Format type : <0> lba=512

6.5 Safely Erasing User Data of an SSD

Function
This command is used to safely erase user data of an SSD.
After safely erasing an SSD, the sector type and quantity of logical drives are not changed.
Exercise caution because this operation erases data.
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Figure 6-2 Making a logical drive offline
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