SUMMARY: Solaris Disk Wipe

Too many people to thank who replied....

In the end I used the Sun blueprint with the method by Christoper Manly for now

http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0600/scrub.pdf

other suggestions were...

http://wipe.sourceforge.net/ from David Magda

http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/public/htdocs/clean_disks.html from Bernd Schemmer

BC Wipe as I had already found http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/bcwipe_unix.htm and recommended by James Ray

Ryan Anderson suggested creating a bootable CD which I will most certainly look to do, and someone suggested creating a diskless boot, which again sounds better.

The usual dd /dev/zero for a quick wipe, but the only way to make 100% sure is crushing!! a little drastic in this case.

Thanks to all and those I didn't mention

Regards,
Paul


----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Lyons <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:13 am
Subject: Solaris Disk Wipe

Hi,

Does anyone have any tips on wiping disks on multiple systems? We
want to wipe all disks in a system, including the OS and when you
have 20+ systems, some with multiple disks too, doing them one by
one doesn't sound appealing.

I've looked at the sun blue print for scrubbing
http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/bcwipe_unix.htm, and also
google'd a little. I can only see a way of doing them one by one.

If it is one by one, is there any better/quicker ways to wipe them?

Thanks,
Paul
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