Format/Clean Harddisk 10.20 B2600

[willi_2]

Hello,

I have a workstation B2600 with HPUX10.20. Now I want to sell this workstation. It is possible to format (to clean) the harddisk with UNIX tools or Support CD´s etc.???

Because I want to sell a cleaned harddisk.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Willi,

The easiest solution is to reinstall a fresh OS on the B2600.

Best regards,
Robert-Jan

[willi_2]

Yes sure this is a solution but I want so sell only hardware without any software on the machine.

[MarkSyder]

There is mediainit, but there's no guarantee the disc will be usable afterwards. I agree with the recommendation to install the OS.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Adisuria Wangsadinata_1]

Hi,

Maybe this one is not good for the production system, but for your workstation could be a nice idea.

Boot the system and run below commands :

# cd /
# rm -R *

Hope this info will help you.

Cheers,
AW

[RAC_1]

This came up a lots of time on forums. there are utilities that will do it. mediainit, sometimes renders the disk useless. so be aware of it before you use it.

Also a vgexport also suffices. You can also do as follows.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/cxtxdx bs=1k

Anil

[willi_2]

Thank you very much for all answers. I will test all versions. The important think is that the machine is not bootable. So the version with rm -r * could be a solution

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

Since the machine is not bootable none of these methods will work. The only thing left is to install OS on the machine and when it is up run any of above methods or you can install the disk of this machine in some other machine (HPUx or Compatible Windows or Linux)and then can use the dd command from that machine to erase the contents. But if you have more that one disk then you should use the same command to erase all disks indivisually.

HTH,
Devender