Re: [CentOS] erase disk

2013-09-26 Thread Bret Taylor
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

Re: [CentOS] erase disk

2013-09-26 Thread Bret Taylor
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.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Bret Taylor wrote: Phil Dobbin bukowskis...@gmail.com wrote: I have a CentOS server (a Dell 860) with two drives in it. One

Re: [CentOS] erase disk

2013-09-26 Thread Bret Taylor
Paul Heinlein heinl...@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: 1. Re-use by same employee: stick with filesystem tools. 2.