hard disk wipe out

[subhashni]

Hello ,
is there any easy and reliable method to wipe out the hard disk in hp.
Thanks

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

This should suffice for all but the most sensitive situations:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k of=/dev/rdsk/c1t5d0

For better wiping on 11.11 systems and up, multiple passes of this command to write random data (rather than 0's) to every disk sector:

dd if=/dev/urandom ibs=256 obs=1024k of=/dev/rdsk/c1t5d0

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

Look at the http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=634477

HTH

[Sung Oh]

Hi Subhashni,

here is a method to wipe out harddisk.
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Wiping_HP-UX_disks.html

Regards,
Sung

[James George_1]

Hi

Use the mediainit command :
# mediainit â v /dev/rdsk/cxtxd

This will destroy all user data in the disk

Rgds / James

[James George_1]

sorry ofr the junks in the command:

# mediainit -v /dev/rdsk/cxtxdx

Rgds / James

[subhashni]

thank you