[Cialug] Wiping server hard drives

[Barry Von Ahsen]

I've used dban in the past, but it can be flaky recognizing raid 
controllers.  I've had to break the raid and dban the individual drives.


I've also done shred -R, then writing /dev/random then /dev/zero then 
/dev/random to the whole disk


then, if you don't need to keep the drives, I find high caliber 
ballistics extra effective (and fun) :)


-barry



On 10/19/2011 4:42 PM, Hasler, Chris 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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