Securely erasing data from decommissioned server

[Terrence]

We're replacing a few servers and I'm curious about a quick and easy way to remove all our data from the hard drives.

Media init certainly isn't enough. Perhaps a script that writes a file over every byte on the disk?

What has everyone done in the past?

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

There ar eplenty of threaqds in the ITRC discussing this.

Here are a few:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=957297

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=956898

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi,

How about dd ing a few times.

# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/rdsk/cxtydz bs=1024k

# dd if=/dev/random of/dev/rdsk/cxtydz bs=1024k

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Terrence]

Good enough!