[rescue] Secure Sun wipe utility?

[Jochen Kunz]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:22:48 -0600 (CST)
"Mike Hebel" <nimitz at nimitzbrood.com> wrote:

> What's everybody else use?  Any suggestions?
sformat(8) has an extensive pattern read / write verify test. It writes
a pattern to the entire disk, reads it back, checks if it is correct,
does bad block testing, ... A complete run consists of 12 read / write
cycles with different patterns. I think you can be sure all old data is
/dev/null-ed after 12 writes. Nice side effect of sformat(8): It also
checks the fitness of your disks.
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       Jochen

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