Whats the best way to wipe a solaris disk/array clean of data??

[Mylle]

at work im in the process of wiping clean a TON of sun boxes. u10's 450's 250's u2's and more plus drive arrays. i takes forever to format the drives so my question is:

is ther a faster or better way to make sure all the data is gone (maybe kinda like a /q commmand in windows format?)

any help is appreciated

Mylle

 

[wlj]

/q doesn't actually erase the data...that's why it's so quick.

You could try 'dd'ing /dev/zero to the raw device, but I'm not sure that'd be any quicker than formatting. However, it will likely be more effective at getting rid of data than format is as 'dd if=/dev/zero of=foo' will actually overwrite the current contents of the disk.