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- <li><em>date</em>: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 08:10:43 -0400</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: leeslist at gmail.com (lyric hartley)</li>
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On 9/30/05, Alan Dobkin <ALE at maestroit.com> wrote:
> On 9/30/2005 1:34 PM, lyric hartley wrote:
> > I need to completely clean the drive on a remote box...and it needs to
> > happen with just a file that gets uploaded...handsoff...I imainge I
> > could use one of the tiny distros to boot into and run a
> > script...thought I would see if anyone has any ideas or suggestions
>
> If you have no physical access, but you can SSH into the system and
> unmount the filesystem, then you should be able to use fdisk and/or mkfs
> on the partition. If you want something more secure, you can try
> running DBAN remotely. It can be run on just one partition:
>
> Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot floppy that
> securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically
> and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect,
> which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data
> destruction.
>
> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://DBAN.SourceForge.net/";>http://DBAN.SourceForge.net/</a>
>
> Alan
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