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Erasing data from a UNIX HDD

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by hanes_ray 1 view

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I have an HP Apollo that I need to wipe the entire hard drive. How do you go about formatting one of these machines? It is running HP-UX 10.2

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by khongphutu

Hi,

I would use dd command as specified by Answer 2
(dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dsk/whateverdisk bs=1024)

except that before doing this low-level HDD format, I would find out what the drive is mainly used for to guide me on choosing the best bs (blocksize) option.

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