At 01:34 PM 9/14/2020, you wrote:
what if you just dd the first 1GB of the disk and the last GB of the disk
(the last because of RAID signatures of some controllers that write to the
end of the disk)
Look at this article and modify accordingly
I've never run into a system yet where using dd to write zeros on the first
few megabytes didn't completely wipe the disk as far as the OS and existing
file systems are concerned..
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde bs=65536 count=1024
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At 02:36 PM 9/14/2020, you wrote:
On 2020-09-14 16:52, Robert Heller wrote:
At Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:14:44 -0700 CentOS mailing list
wrote:
Folks
I've encountered situations where I want to reuse a hard-drive. I do
If it is a Seagate, don't bother. They have the highest failure
rate in
On 2020-09-14 16:52, Robert Heller wrote:
At Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:14:44 -0700 CentOS mailing list
wrote:
Folks
I've encountered situations where I want to reuse a hard-drive. I do
If it is a Seagate, don't bother. They have the highest failure rate in
the industry.
Look at the SMART
At Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:14:44 -0700 CentOS mailing list
wrote:
>
> Folks
>
> I've encountered situations where I want to reuse a hard-drive. I do
> not want to preserve anything on the drive, and I'm not concerned
> about 'securely erasing' old content. I just want to be able to
> define
what if you just dd the first 1GB of the disk and the last GB of the disk
(the last because of RAID signatures of some controllers that write to the
end of the disk)
Look at this article and modify accordingly
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 3:18 PM david wrote:
> I've tried erasing the first megabyte of the disk, but there are ZFS
> or LVM structures that get in the way. So, does anyone have an
> efficient way to erase structures from a disk such that it can be reused?
>
GPT for sure has backup metadata on
On 9/14/20 1:14 PM, david wrote:
I've tried erasing the first megabyte of the disk, but there are ZFS
or LVM structures that get in the way. So, does anyone have an
efficient way to erase structures from a disk such that it can be reused?
Use "wipefs -a" on any partition (or raw disk)
Folks
I've encountered situations where I want to reuse a hard-drive. I do
not want to preserve anything on the drive, and I'm not concerned
about 'securely erasing' old content. I just want to be able to
define it as an Physical Volume (in a logical volume set), or make it
a ZFS disk, or
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