Re: Simple question- how to erase everything?
From: nothermark (trash_at_gnomex.cotse.net)
Date: 12/26/03
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Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 01:39:23 GMT
Pull the drive and put it in another machine. Overwrite several times
with varying patterns. If yoou want a simple clean it only takes
once. If you want it unrecoverable it takes several passes to defeat
available recovery programs. More to defeat the government.
BTW, does it have a USB port? Can you use a USB device to run the
wipe prog from after you boot to the system? There must be some way
to boot to another device.
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:21:32 -0500, "rotwang" <dont@emailme.com>
wrote:
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>I have to go and erase a rack-mounted linux server tomorrow- completely wipe
>the HD. Now, I'm not a total idiot- I could do this if there was either a
>cdrom drive or floppy, but this is a rack machine so how do I do this (it's
>not actually on a rack, it's sitting on someone's desk unconnected)? I can
>plug a monitor and KB into it, and I'm assuming I can login that way, but
>then what? I would normally use a Dos disk with fdisk on it, but here I'm
>lost. Need to wipe the drive because it's being sold.
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>Any advice appreciated.
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