[CentOS] wiping out data on a disk (no physical acess to the machine)

[Gordon Messmer]

On 01/12/2013 04:33 PM, zGreenfelder wrote:
> at $long_ago_job we'd use a pxe-netboot image; effectively DBAN
> (http://www.dban.org/).   which only really works if you have another
> server in the remote location to act as the pxe server.

Anything that you can PXE boot, you should also be able to load from GRUB.

http://ralintech.blogspot.com/2011/02/remote-wipe-with-dban.html

If DBAN features SSH, this would work.  I assume that it does, since the 
blog is specifically about remotely wiping a system.