From: Jim McDonald (jmcdon23@CSC.COM.AU)
Date: Fri Feb 14 2003 - 16:55:21 EST
Hi
By coincidence I looked at this yesterday but on HP-UX
Biil's reply below was very similar to the HP-UX version the only
differences being how the disks are referenced.
The /dev/zero generates lots of zero's - the HP articles I came across
stated that other methods such as rm & disk initialisation/formatting
procedures do not necessarily
remove the data all they do is make inaccessible until its overwritten.
Regards
Jim McDonald
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rhdisk0
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I just wanted to know if I could delete it completely from a
remote terminal (using telnet)?
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I'm at a disaster and recovery site and would like to know what is the
quickest way to delete the entire system before I leave.
is the command ---> rm -R , from the root directory sufficient?
how do I place this in a cron job to delete tonight at 11PM.
thanks
joe
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