[Cialug] Wiping server hard drives

Josh More jmore at starmind.org
Wed Oct 19 16:45:43 CDT 2011


You want DBAN.  http://www.dban.org/

-Josh More

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Hasler, Chris <
ChrisHasler at alliantenergy.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm a new member of the group (just joined yesterday).  Does anyone have a
> good method, process or utility to wipe server hard drives clean when
> decommissioning hardware?
> I mostly deal with server class hardware containing array controllers with
> hard drives in RAID configurations so any utility would need to be able to
> recognize that.
>
> I've been experimenting with the shred coreutil and it seems to do what I
> want.  Any other suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris H.
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