On 09/26/13 18:32, Bret Taylor wrote:
Paul Heinlein heinlein@madboa.com wrote:
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, SilverTip257 wrote:
Eh, I don't really think dban is necessary. Probably more than an fdisk and creating a file system is overkill.
My policies are work are simple:
- Re-use by same employee: stick with filesystem tools.
- Re-use within company: single-pass zeroing of disk.
- Retirement of asset: three-pass of random bits.
I've never seen the need for a seven-pass randomization. If pressed, I'd probably agree that a one-pass zeroing is good enough for just about any situation. Asset retirement isn't a time-sensitive task, however, so I always use a three-pass randomization before it heads out the door.
You all realize that dban only offers 3 passes, unless you pay for it, right? DBAN is easy, that's why I recommended it.
Um, no. It offers DoD 5220.22-M, which it *says* is seven passes, and I've seen that it is. And we normally use a disk until a) it dies, or b) the server it's in dies, and then reuse, or, more likely, sits around until we consider it too small.... On top of which, I *do* need to guarantee that it's clean, as I noted originally. I have *zero* intention of winding up in a news story about someone buying an old surplussed server, and finding all *sorts* of interesting data on the h/d in it.
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