Cleaning data off a remote machine

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Mon Jul 28 17:29:20 UTC 2008


> don't inadvertantly leave any bits of sensitive data on it. What is the best
> way to remove all data from the hard drive? I have no problem if this removes
> the OS along the way, but ideally I would like to be able to do what ever I do
> from an SSH session. If there's no alternative I can arange KVMoIP console
> access.
remove all your files, then


cat /dev/zero >file

on every partition




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