timcuth
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Re: Need to wipe some drives - HP-UX
In Solaris, the standard format command has an option to destructively wipe a disk. My system administrator was telling me about it, but I don't remember the details. He said it runs a long time, too.
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timcuth
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| said by timcuth  :In Solaris, the standard format command has an option to destructively wipe a disk. My system administrator was telling me about it, but I don't remember the details. He said it runs a long time, too. Tim I have been checking the man pages, it was apparently not the format command.  Buf I am sure it was some standard part of the OS or its utilities. Sorry, it was a couple of years ago when he was telling me about it.
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| It was the format command and the option was 'purge' which would write alternative 1s and 0s at every accessible data location: see here
I'm not aware of a similar option in HP-UX, but it is easy enough to do the same with dd.
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