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Operating Systems AIX Permanentky deleting data from disk drives for a decommissioned server. Post 302318528 by bakunin on Thursday 21st of May 2009 08:09:47 PM
Old 05-21-2009
You could connect the disks to another system and then use "dd" to directly write to the disks device. This would not be 100% percent sure but close enough to that for all practical purposes. As long as nobody disassembles the disks and uses CIA methods and tools to recover the data it will be a save method.

If you want to be really, really 100% sure: take the disks and tear them to pieces, punching large holes into the magnetic surface.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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VGSCAN(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 VGSCAN(8)

NAME
vgscan - scan all disks for volume groups and rebuild caches SYNOPSIS
vgscan [-d|--debug] [-h|-?|--help] [--ignorelockingfailure] [--mknodes] [-P|--partial] [-v|--verbose] DESCRIPTION
vgscan scans all SCSI, (E)IDE disks, multiple devices and a bunch of other disk devices in the system looking for LVM physical volumes and volume groups. Define a filter in lvm.conf(5) to restrict the scan to avoid a CD ROM, for example. In LVM2, vgscans take place automatically; but you might still need to run one explicitly after changing hardware. OPTIONS
See lvm(8) for common options. --mknodes Also checks the LVM special files in /dev that are needed for active logical volumes and creates any missing ones and removes unused ones. --cache Scan devices for LVM physical volumes and volume groups and instruct the lvmetad daemon to update its cached state accordingly. SEE ALSO
lvm(8), vgcreate(8), vgchange(8) Sistina Software UK LVM TOOLS 2.02.105(2)-RHEL7 (2014-03-26) VGSCAN(8)
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