Re: HELP - Wiping AIX 4.3 drives with fwipe

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Date: 06/21/05 

Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:18:51 -0500

I believe the `diag` command lets you wipe drives in 4.3. It's under
"Task Selection", then "Format Media". This doesn't leave a bootable
disk behind, aka, you can't use this on your rootvg disk unless booted
from alternate media. Albeit, it probably only does a simple one-time
overwrite, but if you are concerned about "DOD 7 Pass Deletion"
silliness then you probably ought to just destroy the drives anyway.

-Nathan

SJM wrote:
> I have found the easiest / best solution is to put the disk in another
> workstation and use dd as follows (assuming the drive to be securely
> wiped is /dev/sda):
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1k
>

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