[SunHELP] Wiping Sparc harddrives

[Kevin Stevens]

I wouldn't trust it - all the data is still on there, including the
superblocks.

KeS

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sreenivasa Rao Vadalasetty" <vsr at wilco-int.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 23:37
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Wiping Sparc harddrives


> Don't you think deleting the partitions is the faster way to make the data
> on the disk inaccessible?
>
> Sreenivas.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robo [SMTP:mm5aes at btinternet.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:20 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Wiping Sparc harddrives
>
> check out fmthard - there's an option to use a file -
> /dev/null works I believe.
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Bran Tregare
> Sent: 11 May 2001 06:22
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] Wiping Sparc harddrives
>
>
> Is there a quick way to wipe the information off a HD in a sparc?  I
> was
> asked recenetly by a friend who works at a scrapper if there was a
> quick
> way, it looks like they are going to get a bunch of sparcs but the
> HD's
> need to be wiped before they remove them from the warehouse where
> they are
> currently stored.
>
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