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Darik's Boot and Nuke, a program to securely erase a hard drive.

Darik's Boot and Nuke operates on any hard drive that it can find, and securely and permanently erases the contents of that hard drive. It is run from bootable media, so nothing is required on the host computer. More information can be found at http://www.dban.org/

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Why does everybody recommend Dban over more fundamental methods?

When people ask on how to wipe a drive, it almost seems as if the default answer is DBAN and I am not really sure why. Especially when doing commands like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda dcfldd pattern="00"…
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How to setup PXE boot server in CentOS

I am working on researching a project for work and thought that I would ask for your advice. I am trying to find out how to setup a PXE boot server within CentOS that would allow us to PXE boot a variety of system tools and utilities. Ideally it…
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Erasing Server RAID Hard disks (SAS and SATA) for decomissioning

We are in a process of decomissioning a handfull of Fujitsu Primergy Servers. Before of course, we want to make sure that the hard disks are completely wiped out. But it seems there is no way to format hard disks one by one as the RAID array…
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Wipe out hard drive on HP box using DBAN from CD?

I need to create CD for wipping out hard drives before boxes are decomitioned. Considering to use DBAN: does it matter that the boxes are running HP Unix? Will this effect anything? is there a different version for different architecture? I would…
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Dell poweredge 1900 Dban drives individually

I have 6 SATA HDDs connected to the server. Is there a way to dBan each disk individually. As of right now the controller creates a virtual drive and when the dBan is initialized it only wipes the virtual drive.
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Booting DBAN from PXE failing with non-fatal errors

I have a functioning PXE configuration that allows to boot to an installation by Kickstart or rescue, both via RHEL6 media. I'm trying to add DBAN to the mix to make for a more complete solution for our needs. I have it set up to boot and it will…
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