Re: Wipe/Nuke Drives?

On Mar 20, 3:10 pm, "cr.yp.to" <bamb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 20, 9:15 am, "John Hoover" <john.hoo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





I have 24 servers I am going to be decomissioning for End of Life. All
of them are either 7025-F80 or 7025-6F1 servers running AIX 5.2. I am
looking for a solution to wipe the drives so that they are not
recoverable before sending them to my surplus company. I have used
products like "wipe" and "Dariks Boot and Nuke" for x86 based servers,
and I'm looking for something similar that runs on RS/6000.

I found a thread from a while ago that suggested booting from an AIX
5.3 CD, and that there was an option there for wiping the drive.
Problem is that these systems have only ran AIX 5.2, and would need a
firmware upgrade just to boot the AIX 5.3 CD. Seems like an awful lot
of extra work to do just to nuke and surplus them afterwards. Also,
I'm not even sure that the Wipe option on the AIX 5.3 CD exists, and
if it does, if it would do what I want it to.

So I guess my question is this: What can I do to render AIX VGs
unrecoverable, short of taking the drives out to the shooting range.

Have you tried the "shred" command. I believe DBAN uses something
similar to shred, and it can be found as part of the "coreutils"
package at the URL below.

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/download.html

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Thanks for the info, I'll look into it. Do you know if if it supports
shredding disks as well as just files? I run into a problem that even
the erase disk procedure in diag only supports the internal SCSI hard
drives... I'm not too worried about someone recovering my rootvg and
being able to see my conf files, it's the SSA datavg that has Oracle
databases that I need to nuke. Maybe I could just shred the .dbfs and
then delete the vg and format the hard drives, but that's too many
steps, I just want something that will write random pattern to every
sector of every disk in the machine. Apparently that's a lot to ask,
or else I'm too dumb to find it. :-)

Thanks

.

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