SUMMARY: SANITIZING SCSI DISK PARTITIONS

From: Brian Decker (reagan!brian@uu2.psi.com)
Date: Tue Dec 01 1992 - 18:32:27 CST


Regarding my inquiry:
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">"
">"Hello;
">"
">" I am currently involved in the construction of a Sun-based information
">"system. One of my requirements is to be able to purge all data from several
">"SCSI disk partitions upon request. I looked into the format->purge->analyze
">"option provided with SunOS, but it appears that that particular command can
">"only be used to affect entire disks, not single partitions.
">"
">" Do you (collectively) know where I might obtain some utility (preferably
">"in source form) that can purge selected disk partitions ??
">"
">"Thanks for the assistance!

The majority opinion is that newfs(8) will do the trick, possibly proceeded by
some conflagration of the 'dd' command. However, Ray Smith mentioned the
*UniShred* software utility available from Los Altos Technologies. This
utility appears to meet DOD, NSA, NCSC guidelines. Information can be obtained
via e-mail from info@lat.com

Replicated thanks to:
   Adrian Booth (Adrian Booth Computing Consultants-abcc@DIALix.oz.au)
   Brett Lymn (AWA Defence Industries-blymn@awadi.com.au)
   Brian Bartholomew (U of FL-bb@math.ufl.edu)
   Kevin ? (kevin@fourx.aus.sun.com)
   Ray Brownrigg (ray@isor.vuw.ac.nz)
   Toby Weingart (weingart@inf.ethz.ch)
   Ray Smith (Computer Sciences Corporation-rcsmith@analytics.com)
   Steve Mowbray(U Manchester,UK-sm@g2.ph.man.ac.uk)



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