On 01/08/2013 02:36 PM, Carl T. Miller wrote: > 1) connect using ssh and stop all services > 2) swapoff /dev/sdXX > 3) shred -n5 -z -v /dev/sdX I assume that all of the disks are to be shredded. Shredding non-system disks wouldn't be difficult enough to ask about. If you shred a mounted filesystem, the kernel will probably panic if it tries to read from the filesystem after shred starts overwriting data. > 4) echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq > 6) echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger You wouldn't be able to do that once shred had run.