[Cialug] Wiping server hard drives

Theron Conrey theron at conrey.org
Wed Oct 19 16:47:12 CDT 2011


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Used it when I had to wipe drives to DoD standards.

Theron


On 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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