On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 01:22:46PM -0700, Timothy D Thatcher wrote:
>Hi Bob,
>I generally agree with Bill K, though I haven't used that software he
>mentions particularly; you'll want to _not_ boot off the drive you want
>to wipe to be sure you catch all the data. Otherwise you risk
I understand the sting from RedHat pulling the rug from you. However, I
migrated all my CentOS 7 and 8 servers to AlmaLinux. That at least bought me a
lot more time to evaluate the situation down the road…
— Dave Spencer, SacBusiness.com
> On Feb 4, 2024, at 12:16 PM, Dr. Larry Ozeran
> wrote
Hi All,
Nice to see activity on the list. I have been searching for a reliable
way to migrate an end of life CentOS server to Ubuntu in a manner that
minimizes email disruption. There is a lot of general information
available, so I have been cobbling together a plan, but it would be
helpful i
Hi Bob,
I generally agree with Bill K, though I haven't used that software he
mentions particularly; you'll want to _not_ boot off the drive you want to
wipe to be sure you catch all the data. Otherwise you risk chugging along
with the wipe until you hit something critical in the filesystem at som
On Sat, Feb 03, 2024 at 11:36:44AM -0800, Bob Scofield wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to recycle an old desktop. I'm planning to wipe the hard
> drive with this command:
>
> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=1M
>
> Can I just run this from the command line? Or do I have to use a
> flash drive with Linu
