topic Re: secure disk erasure? in Operating System - HP-UX

secure disk erasure?

emmaj — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 03:26:07 GMT

I am a newbie and would like to know if someone could suggest a secure way to erase disks for hp servers?

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Re: secure disk erasure?

Rodney Hills — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:10:53 GMT

You would use "dd". See the following thread.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=870349

HTH

-- Rod Hills

Re: secure disk erasure?

Victor Fridyev — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:15:25 GMT

Hi,

This is a hard question. The answer depends on the security level, which you need.
As a simplest way, you can use command dd
dd if=somefile of=/dev/dsk/disk count=N
The file size and count should be chosen in order to cover all disk.
Also you can use command
medianit

But the surest way is to destroy disk physically.

HTH