Re: Wiping out hdisks on F30?

From: Renison, Rick (rick.renison@EDS.COM)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 12:42:07 EDT


if you want to zero out all data on the disk, cat /dev/zero >/dev/rhiskx

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken_Sedlacek@KYRUS.COM [mailto:Ken_Sedlacek@KYRUS.COM]
Sent: October 1, 2002 09:14
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Wiping out hdisks on F30?

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F30, 128MB, 4(2.2GB), 2 (4.5GB) SCSI hdisks

I am using this F30 to test the restvg procedures of our H50s.

I have been formatting each hdisk to erase it between restvgs.

How can I erase the hdisks quicker?

Ken Sedlacek
AIX/TSM/UNIX Administrator
ksedlacek@kyrus.com

IBM Certified Specialist: RS/6000 AIX v4.3 Support
IBM Certified Specialist: RS/6000 SP & PSSP 3
Tivoli Certified Consultant - Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1



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