Re: Need to wipe some drives - HP-UX - All Things Unix

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six9 join:2001-12-03 Atlanta, GA	reply to evilghost Re: Need to wipe some drives - HP-UX said by evilghost: Run mediainit 20 times? I thought about that. Maybe not that many times though. Would almost be easier to put the drives in another box and run a pc wipe on them. I started a dd if=/dev/zero /dev/rdsk/c0t10d0 or something of that nature this morning and it hasn't stopped (I can't remember verbatim). It's on a 18 gb and I have like 12 36 gb drives to do.
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wendo Premium join:2003-03-05 Burke, VA	the dd will take several hours on an 18 gb drive, probably 7 hours plus depending on the speed of the drive. but it will hit ever sector and even one pass will be quite secure. if there is really important info on the drive, you could always set up a little shell script and do it 7 times, alternating between /dev/zero and /dev/random. that would meet US federal guidelines for wiping a drive. not even the nsa would be able to recover it. just let it run over the weekend, should be finished by monday morning.
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