Re: Solaris disk wipe utilitiy?

From: Erik Hovland (ehovland@s383.jpl.nasa.gov)
Date: 03/06/03

  • Next message: Gideon Rasmussen, CISSP: "Re: Solaris disk wipe utilitiy?"
    Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:39:21 -0800
    From: Erik Hovland <ehovland@s383.jpl.nasa.gov>
    To: focus-sun@securityfocus.com
    
    

    On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:59:18AM -0600, MacDougall, Shane wrote:
    > Does anybidy know of a DOD-compliant file/disk wipe utility for
    > Solaris 2.8/2.9? We need to clean off our Sunfire box soon, and need to
    > do it securely.

    I know that NASA's requirement is fulfilled by writing /dev/zero to
    partition s2. Does anyone on this list see a problem with that? Does it
    have be done a few times to beat down the residual magnetic flux?

    See this blueprint for more ideas:
    http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0600/scrub.pdf

    E

    -- 
    Erik Hovland
    Member of Technical Staff, Interferometer Section - 383
    Work Phone:    (818) 354-1994
    Mobile Phone:  (818) 667-3284
    E-mail:        ehovland@huey.jpl.nasa.gov
    I speak for myself not JPL.
    

  • Next message: Gideon Rasmussen, CISSP: "Re: Solaris disk wipe utilitiy?"

    Relevant Pages

    • Solaris disk wipe utilitiy?
      ... Does anybidy know of a DOD-compliant file/disk wipe utility for Solaris 2.8/2.9? ... We need to clean off our Sunfire box soon, and need to do it securely. ...
      (Focus-SUN)
    • upgrade to Solaris 10 11/06 fails - problems with mirrored disks
      ... I am trying to upgrade a SunFire V880 machine from Solaris 01/06 to ... Solaris 11/06 using a custom jumpstart profile. ... I just upgraded a SunFire V890 with a very similar configuration without ...
      (comp.unix.solaris)
    • Re: Adobe Reader 8.1.1
      ... IBM but on Solaris but only on Sparc no AMD (: ... I just installed it on a SunFire 890 Sunray system ...
      (comp.unix.solaris)
    • Problem with iostat output format
      ... SunFire v245, Solaris 10:- ...
      (comp.unix.solaris)
    • Re: solaris versus winodws
      ... >> XP or on a SUNFIRE with solaris 9) ... Compare that to Solaris, where Sun produces say two patches per week, ... Most Solaris admins install a "recommended Patch cluster" (accumulated ...
      (comp.unix.solaris)