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Originally Posted by
homeyjoe
Use 'diag' to format the drives.
# diag - Task Selection - Format Media
HTH
First off, thank you for your answer. Secondly, how secure is the data deletion using the format utility of diag ? Is it writing certain patterns on the existing disk blocks to obliterate them or just erasing the data from the leading inode of each file to make them inaccessible ?
Also, since I need to run this from an aix command prompt, what do you suggest doing the same for the disks in rootvg. Unfortunately, rootvg contained some business related data, despite my initial resistance to it. Now, I have rub rootvg volumes clean before turning these servers back to the leasing hosue.