From: Rick.Brashear@ercgroup.com
Date: Thu Nov 13 2003 - 11:17:27 EST
Thanks for the many responses....
Original Query:
I am tasked with ensuring no data is left on a large number of disks on
servers we are returning on lease expiration. I have done some preliminary
searching for techniques or tools for this task without success.
What say my brothers/sisters at arms on this subject?
Reponses:
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/rdsk/<spanning partition of whtever disk)
or if-/dev/null
ALSO:
format - analyze - write/compare/purge/verify
Some suggested newfs but as documented in this sunmanagers archive article
newfs does very little to remove data (should have checked here first - Tim
Evans):
http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/sunmanagers/2002-October/017432.html
Thanks to these respondants:
ippy@optonline.net
Bruntel, Mitchell L, ALABS [mbruntel@att.com]
Steven Hill [sjh@waroffice.net]
Stephen Moccio [svm@lucent.com]
neil quiogue [neil@quiogue.com]
Eric Paul [epaul@profitlogic.com]
Gwyn Price [gwyn@glyndwr.com]
Steve Elliott [se@comp.lancs.ac.uk]
Pablo Jejcic [pablo.jejcic@smartweb.rgu.ac.uk]
Tim Evans [tkevans@tkevans.com]
Ungaro, Matt [mjungaro@capitolindemnity.com]
joe.fletcher@btconnect.com
Dave Mitchell [davem@fdgroup.com]
Smith, Kevin [Kevin.Smith@sbs.siemens.co.uk]
g ERC
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Rick Brashear
Server Systems
Information Technology Department
Employers Reinsurance Corporation
5200 Metcalf
Overland Park, Kansas 66201
* 913 676-6418
* rick.brashear@ercgroup.com
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