Better safe than sorry. Even if people think it's "overkill". There's paranoid, and then there's best practice; in my mind they're one in the same.
m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Bret Taylor wrote:
>> Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>I have a CentOS server (a Dell 860) with two drives in it.
>>>One is running CentOS 6.4 which I want to keep & the bigger 400GB
>drive
>>>has Debian 7 on it which I want to erase & use for backups.
>>>Which is the best way to go about achieving my intended goal? The
>>>Debian drive is not mounted when Centos is booted.
>>>
>>>Any help appreciated.
>
>> Burn a DBAN disk. Shutdown, pull out the drive you want to keep. Boot
>to
>> the dban disk, when prompted type autonuke, wait for the process to
>> complete. Shutdown, reinsert the centos drive you wanted to keep. You
>will
>> now have your centos main drive, and a blank backup disk. You'll need
>to
>> run mkfs on the blank drive. Then mount it where you want it.
>>
>Then put the dban disk on the shelf over your desk - you *will* want it
>again (and again, and again....)
>
>Most *excellent* piece of software. Of course, working for a US federal
>contractor, when I sanitize, I overkill (DoD 5220.22-M)... but I *am*
>signing my name to the form guaranteeing it's clean.
>
>We, at least, are not going to have accidents with PII and HIPAA data.
>
> mark
>
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