SUMMARY: wiping a disk

From: Christopher L. Barnard <cbar44_at_tsg.cbot.com>
Date: Tue May 18 2004 - 12:40:04 EDT
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.

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