How do you wipe your VG00?

[rleon]

How can I make some kind of boot disk to wipe out VG00, and DOD compliant?

What about VG01 that would be attached to an external array?

Thanks,
Ricardo

[James Brand]

I've never done this on HP-UX but looks like this has been posted before here. See

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1234389452989+28353475&threadId=236342

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

You have a number of options

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/cXtYdZ bs=1024k

or:

# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/rdsk/CXtYdZ bs=1024k

or:

# mediainit /dev/rdsk/cXtYdZ
The problem with mediainit is that if you need to handover the system to someone else, there is a change the disks will not be usable again.

or probably the safest:

Drill holes in your disks:)

Best regards,
Robert-Jan