I asked: > I need to wipe the data off several disks prior to them being removed. > I have not found a tool that I like and I am wondering what solutions > other people are using. > > I am currently using wipe 2.2.0 from SourceForge. It works, but it requires > you to have a ufs installed on the disk and then it wipes that filesystem. > What I am looking for is something that will wipe the device -- ie wipe > /dev/dsk/c1t3d0 without removing the files in the /dev/dsk directory > c1t3d0 s0-s7. > > TIA and I will summarize. The answers: many people suggested doing dd if/dev/random of=/dev/dsk/cXtXdXs2 assuming that the server has /dev/random and slice 2 has not been modified. some folks suggested Gnu shred. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/coreutils_69.html some folks suggested using Sun's format command; select "analyze" and then select "purge". http://www.sun.com/solutions/blueprints/0600/scrub.pdf some folks suggested bcwipe or bc. and of course some folks suggested physical destruction. Several respondents requested that I not include their name or organization, so I won't include any. Thanks to everyone for their responses. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Christopher L. Barnard O When I was a boy I was told that | | cbarnard@tsg.cbot.com / \ anybody could become president. | | (312) 347-4901 O---O Now I'm beginning to believe it. | | http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~cbarnard --Clarence Darrow | +----------PGP public key available via finger or PGP keyserver---------+ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue May 18 12:39:55 2004
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