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
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.
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OPTIONS
See lvm(8) for common options.
--mknodes
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--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)
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