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Wipe Root Disk on Live System
| Posted by HostGo, 09-19-2013, 05:00 PM |
| I am turning in a dedicated Linux server that I want to wipe the disk on before I turn it down. Unfortunately I don't trust the provider will wipe it so I want to do this myself. I don't have access to a remote console or IPMI.
I also don't have a lot of time so I was wondering if I do the following command on the root disk on a live system if it will actually complete since it in essence is destroying the OS disk?
Thanks,
Eric
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| Posted by Douglas, 09-19-2013, 05:16 PM |
| I am not that tech oriented, however, based off of this article it looks like you're on the right path.
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| Posted by HostGo, 09-19-2013, 05:19 PM |
| Yes, I've done this on systems where the disk being wiped is not the root disk. I guess my question is will this command complete on a live system since I am pretty much killing the OS partition on the server?
Eric
Last edited by HostGo; 09-19-2013 at 05:20 PM.
Reason: typo
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| Posted by net, 09-19-2013, 05:50 PM |
| Moved > Hosting Security and Technology .
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| Posted by Martin-D, 09-19-2013, 05:51 PM |
| Before giving them your intentions to leave can you not randomly ask for a reinstall?
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| Posted by Kailash12, 09-20-2013, 01:53 AM |
| This is a good idea. This will make sure that you data have been removed.
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| Posted by HostGo, 09-20-2013, 08:09 AM |
| Turning it in today so not sure if they will or not.
Eric
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