Re: Solaris disk wipe utilitiy?

"Gideon Rasmussen, CISSP" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.sun
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Use "fdisk -P". It will fill the disk with the character specified as an
argument.

From the fdisk man page: 

     -P	fill_patt
	       Fill disk with pattern fill_patt.   fill_patt  can
	       be  decimal  or hex and is used as number for con-
	       stant long  word	pattern. If fill_patt is  #, then
	       pattern is block	# for each block.  Pattern is put
	       in each block as	long words and fills  each  block
	       (see -o and  -s).

You may need to run this multiple times to comply w/DoD standards. Check
with your INFOSEC officer.

F.Y.I. I am currently on the market if you need additional assistance. 
;-)

Gideon

Gideon Rasmussen, CISSP
Celebration, FL
[email protected]
321-939-1526

"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.
> 
> Thx,
> Shane
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