How can I erase a filer before returning it to NetApp?
Use the following command on every disk:
disk sanitize start
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Hi, Thanks for your help. Can we use your solution with disks from the volboot volume ? What about this first answer ? I don't have access to the filer at the moment, how can we boot to the maint menu and what is choice #4 ?
There is no "low-level" data ONTAP format. You can zero out the disks, multiple times if you like. Boot to the 1-5 maint menu, select #4. This will prevent 99.5% of folks out there from getting anything off of the disks. Unless you're dealing with really hi-tech folks who are into serious forensics. ONTAP does have a "sanitation" product, but it's not free and is probably not worth it unless you are truly concerned that someone with a track and sector editor is going to try to piece things back together.
To erase root volumes you will need to assign another volume first as the root volume, reboot, and only then erase. You can find instructions on the NOW on how to move a root volume to a new volume.
To get to the 1-5 menu you have to reboot, and you need serial console access. Choice 4 or 4a is for initializing ALL data on the disks. 4 creates a single traditional volume with 3 disks RAID-DP (in 6.5 and up), 4a creates an aggregate with a FlexVol vol0 in it.
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I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Ethical concerns aside... I just hope that as the price of memory falls, the possibility of copying our memories onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's one of the things I really wish I could see in my lifetime.
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Hi,
Thanks for your help.
Can we use your solution with disks from the volboot volume ?
What about this first answer ?
I don't have access to the filer at the moment, how can we boot to the maint menu and what is choice #4 ?
There is no "low-level" data ONTAP format. You can zero out the disks, multiple times if you like. Boot to the 1-5 maint menu, select #4. This will prevent 99.5% of folks out there from getting anything off of the disks. Unless you're dealing with really hi-tech folks who are into serious forensics. ONTAP does have a "sanitation" product, but it's not free and is probably not worth it unless you are truly concerned that someone with a track and sector editor is going to try to piece things back together.
To erase root volumes you will need to assign another volume first as the root volume, reboot, and only then erase. You can find instructions on the NOW on how to move a root volume to a new volume.
To get to the 1-5 menu you have to reboot, and you need serial console access.
Choice 4 or 4a is for initializing ALL data on the disks. 4 creates a single traditional volume with 3 disks RAID-DP (in 6.5 and up), 4a creates an aggregate with a FlexVol vol0 in it.
I truly believe that we have reached the point where technology has become one with our world, and I am fairly confident when I say that we have passed the point of no return in our relationship with technology.
I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Ethical concerns aside... I just hope that as the price of memory falls, the possibility of copying our memories onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's one of the things I really wish I could see in my lifetime.
(Posted on Nintendo DS running [url=http://www.leetboss.com/video-games/r4i-r4-sdhc-nintendo-ds]R4i SDHC[/url] DS SPPost)
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now. Keep it up!
And according to this article, I totally agree with your opinion, but only this time! :)
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