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Operating Systems AIX How to Safely delete oracle db datafiles in AIX? Post 302399411 by jim mcnamara on Saturday 27th of February 2010 08:58:33 PM
Old 02-27-2010
Do you mean you need to erase the file - scrub the disk sectors of the file so disk scrounging cannot happen?

diag -T "format" command used to do that, I believe.

Also for a better tool try this from security paranoia central:
http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/tt/pdf/techs/filescrub.pdf

I worked there for several years, and so can attest to the paranoia.

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 02-27-2010 at 10:06 PM..
 

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SYNOPSIS
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