Hello, On Wed, 01 Oct 2008, rajasekhar kuppa wrote: > This is a question i had for a long time.. with out a solution... how will > shred work on a disk subsystem? Does any body have experience with this .. i > mean on a disk array like Clarion or HP MSA .. these arrays usually do > not repeat the command in its intended purpose.. how do we successfully > use "shred" > on them??
For such systems one approach is to create an encrypted block device which uses this device as the base block device. You don't even need to remember the passphrase! After creating the encrypted device. say /dev/mapper/encrypt you can run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/encrypt Like shred, you can run this command multiple number of times to ensure that all magnetic memory is also erased. Regards, Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
