Turns out that this does work for EBS volumes:
# attach volume to instance
ebs=/dev/xvdj2
shred --iterations=0 --zero --verbose ${ebs}
od -bc ${ebs}
# detach volume from instance
The attaching/detaching happen via the API or the management console.
Now to figure out how to wipe snapshots and S3 objects.
Hope everyone had a festive Thanksgiving.
Regards,
- Robert
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Scott Granneman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sounds right to me, Robert. Email Jans & ask him.
>
> Scott
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> Contact info at http://granneman.tel
>
> On Nov 4, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone wiped an EBS volume under Linux on AWS? If so, how?
>>
>> I imagine it's just a matter of mounting the EBS as another volume and
>> running shred/wipe on /dev/sda (or whatever is the device). Or is
>> there more to it?
>>
>> The closest google search I could find was this one, which is more
>> about securing public AMIs:
>>
>> http://alestic.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=1&tag=EBS&limit=20
>>
>> Regards,
>> - Robert
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Talking about cloud:
>>>
>>> http://aws.amazon.com/free/
>>>
>>> Linux works pretty well with that.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> - Robert
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Thomas Kirk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Are we meeting Sunday?
>>>> Any particular topics?
>>>> Will apple continue to update its os as they focus on a cloud environment?
>>>> How well will the linux variants work with a cloud environment? Thomas Kirk
>>>
>>
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