[Cialug] Wiping server hard drives

Nathan C. Smith nathan.smith at ipmvs.com
Wed Oct 19 16:47:21 CDT 2011


That's what I mean, Darrik not Bart ;-)

Only it doesn't work very well with RAID cards on several Proliant servers I have tried.

-Nate


From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Josh More
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:46 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Wiping server hard drives

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

-Josh More
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Hasler, Chris <ChrisHasler at alliantenergy.com<mailto: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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