Re: deleting user data on old system

Format everything and re-install from CD. There's no easy - or even quite
difficult! - way you can actually erase the data on the final disk whilst
it's in use: recovery of deleted data in those circumstances would be
relatively easy. Anything you might attempt would surely be more trouble
than re-installing.

I suppose that having an OS installed is useful to demonstrate that
everything is working, but the first thing I would do if I bought such a
system would be to re-install AIX myself.

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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Yard, John
Sent: 26 June 2006 19:38
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: deleting user data on old system



Another department at UCLA wants to sell

an AIX system after deleting the user data

from it.



The system only has a rootvg, mirrored over

4 disks. They don't want to delete the OS,

thinking that they need the OS running to sell

the hardware.



I think if I drop the rootvg mirrors

and format the 3 disks that will zap the data on the 3 disks.



I am not sure going thru the remaining rootvg

disk will eliminate all user data references.



Any ideas out there ?

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