[CentOS] wiping out data on a disk (no physical acess to the machine)
Gordon Messmer
yinyang at eburg.com
Sun Jan 13 00:03:57 UTC 2013
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.
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