Re: A non-sun user with a stupid question

From: Mike Vore (mvore_at_ix.dot.netcom.dot.com.dot)
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:02:06 GMT

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:40:09 +0100, YTC#1 <ukrm@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:03:53 -0700, Nich Wisland wrote:
>
>> My company recently aquired a pair of Sun Ultra 5000's (along with a Sun
>> mass storage unit). We are a reseller of surplus and used electronics,
>> but our focus is on 100% data destruction. The two solutions to these
>> issues we've found are 1) sell withoud drive array and 2) wipe drives
>> individually outside of the units. Obviously, if there's an alternative,
>> we'd prefer that. Not being a Sun user, I'm unfamiliar with utilites that
>> allow for data destruction. Our usual practice involves a wipe program
>> that re-writes every sector of the disk (thus deleting partition tables as
>> well). Does anything like this exist for a Sun array purpose?
>>
>
> Use dd and write /dev/zero to the entire disk

For the OP who isn't a sun user.

  dd -if /dev/zero -of /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3

     -if = input file
     -of = output file
     /dev/dsk/ c0 controller 0
                t0 target 0
                d0 disk 0
                s3 slice 3

    Adjust the numbers as needed, use 'format' to see what disks
are recognized by the system. Normally Slice-3 is the entire disk

         

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