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Am 12.07.2015 um 14:35 schrieb Marc Joliet: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have to failed drives that I want to give away for recycling purposes, but |
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> want to be sure to properly clear them first. They used be part of a btrfs |
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> RAID10 array, but needed to be replaced (with "btrfs replace"). (In the |
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> meantime I converted the array to RAID1 with only two drives.) |
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> My question is how precisely the disks should be cleared. From various sources |
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> I know that overwriting them with random data a few times is enough to render |
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> old versions of data unreadable. I'm guessing 3 times ought to be enough, but |
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> maybe even that small amount is overly paranoid these days? |
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> As to the actual command, I would suspect something like "dd if=/dev/urandom |
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> of=/dev/sdx bs=4096" should suffice, and according to |
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> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Random_number_generation#.2Fdev.2Furandom, |
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> /dev/urandom ought to be random enough for this task. Or are cat/cp that much |
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> faster? |
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> Any thoughts? |
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> Greetings |
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actually 1 time is enough. With zeros. Or ones. Does not matter at all. |