Re: Solaris disk wipe utilitiy?

Erik Hovland <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.sun
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:59:18AM -0600, MacDougall, Shane wrote:
> Does anybidy know of a DOD-compliant file/disk wipe utility for
> Solaris 2.8/2.9? We need to clean off our Sunfire box soon, and need to
> do it securely. 

I know that NASA's requirement is fulfilled by writing /dev/zero to
partition s2. Does anyone on this list see a problem with that? Does it
have be done a few times to beat down the residual magnetic flux?

See this blueprint for more ideas:
http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0600/scrub.pdf

E

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