Oh no worries!

Also hdparam/nvme-cli will let the drive erase itself, and should be faster than operating through a computer. Like it can take seconds on some SSDs since it wipes the chips in parallel, and some drives are self encrypting, so it just deletes the key, leaving the scrambled data. But those usually won’t work on USB drives.

If it’s an external SSD, I like to format my drives as f2fs, which is a filesystem designed for flash memory, so it might be a bit faster and last longer than ext4. But that’s just personal preference and ext4 should always work fine.

I believe the main contributor for drm_panic wants to add one eventually. Here’s what it might look like:

https://gitlab.com/kdj0c/panic_report/-/issues/1

Link if you can’t scan

Also it looks like the colours are configurable at compile time (with white on black default).