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I'm integrating DBAN (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) into our PXE boot menu system (using vesamenu.c32) but it just hangs when I'm using vesamenu.c32 and confusingly when I revert our menu system to using vesa.c32 it works ok. I've stripped out any extraneous configuration but it still seems to have the same pro...

I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says starting, then dies, saying "dban has finished with non-fatal errors. Check the log for more information" It never gets to the interactive menu. Now that I've disabled the non-existant floppy drive, at least it...

DBAN is obsolete. NIST 800-88 for some time now says to use secure erase or enhanced security erase or crypto erase if supported. Other options do not erase data in remapped sectors. Chris Murphy

greetings list, i am creating a new thread because of comment made by; From: Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> in thread "Subject: [CentOS] erase disk". in past readings about; erasing an hdd, forensics of hard disk drives, dban, destroying hdd i submit these links for those who may wish to further their knowledge on primaries of hdd forensics; hard disk drive forensics - Ixquick Web Search https://ixquick.com/do/search?q=%22hard+disk+drive+forensics%22&lui=english About 28 results hdd forensics - Ixquick Web Search...

...in turn > give them the institutional disk destruction team. I also zero-fill the disk > if possible, but that's not an official requirement. The disk remains > sensitive until the process is complete. > Federal contractor here, too. (I'm the OP). For disks that work, shred or DBAN is what we use. For dead disks, we do the paperwork, and get them deGaussed. SSD's are a brand new issue. We haven't had to deal with them yet, but it's surely coming, so we might as well figure it out now. mark

Hi, I have a dozen of drives, ranging from 10Gb to 200Gb. I want to wipe them clean before donating them. I have a IDE/SATA to USB converter that works. I can see the drives properly. DBAN does not currently support external USB drive. Any other alternatives? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:18 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Chris Murphy wrote: >> DBAN is obsolete. NIST 800-88 for some time now says to use secure erase >> or enhanced security erase or crypto erase if supported. >> >> Other options do not erase data in remapped sectors. > > dban doesn't? What F/OSS does "secure erase"? And does it do what dban...

Chris Murphy wrote: > DBAN is obsolete. NIST 800-88 for some time now says to use secure erase > or enhanced security erase or crypto erase if supported. > > Other options do not erase data in remapped sectors. dban doesn't? What F/OSS does "secure erase"? And does it do what dban's DoD 5220.22-M...

Is there a utility to zero unused blocks on a disk? CentOS 6.7/Ext4 I saw zerofree, but I?m not sure it would work on Ext4 or even work on this version of CentOS. thanks, -wes

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Looks like I can't install syslinux's bootloader on an ntfs partition? What I'd like to do is remotely setup a bootloader to wipe the hard drive contents on old assets. I was kind of hoping, that I could install syslinux on a remote workstation, and then throw a dban image and the corresponding menu and syslinux.cfg files on the remote workstation and then reboot it and have the client choose the option to wipe the hard drive. Unfortunately, the entire hard drive contents is 1 large encrypted ntfs partition. How would any of you guys go about remotely wiping a...

...alling 4.4 first, and then FC6. I've tried it by installing FC6 first, and then 4.4. I've tried it with and without giving the installer permission to use both drives. I always end up with ability to boot only to one OS, usually the one installed last. Between tries I wipe both drives with DBAN. Surely there must be something I'm doing wrong, obvious to many but not to me. Clue, please? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora Core 6; CXO 5.0.1; Pine 4.64, Pan 0.119; Privoxy 3.0.3; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.16, Opera 9.10, Firefox 1.5 Remember I k...

...IMEOUTROW 20 LABEL private MENU DEFAULT MENU LABEL ^1. Private PE BSS vista.bss LABEL hpghost MENU LABEL ^2. HP DC6005 GhostCast Client (Broadcom BCM5761 chipset) KERNEL memdisk append initrd=hpghost.ima LABEL memtest MENU LABEL ^3. MemTest86+ KERNEL /syslinux/memtest LABEL gdisk MENU LABEL ^4. DBAN - Wipe Disk KERNEL dban APPEND initrd=dban.gz root=/dev/ram0 init=/rc nuke="dwipe --autonuke --method dod522022m" floppy=0,16,cmos silent LABEL INPD MENU LABEL ^5. Initialize Primary Disk Drive KERNEL memdisk append initrd=INPD.ima LABEL win98 MENU LABEL ^6. Win98 Boot Disk KERNEL memdi...

...requires military level destruction, > where upon the proper method is to run the drives through a grinder so > they are metal filings. the old DoD multipass erasure specification > is long obsolete and was never that great. If I had realized it would run this long, I would have used DBAN.... For single drives, I do, and choose DoD 5220.22-M (seven passes), which is *way* overkill these days... but I sign my name to a certificate that gets stuck on the outside of the server, meaning I, personally, am responsible for the sanitization of the drive(s). And I work for a US federal cont...

...edacted] KERNEL pxeboot.0 #--- LABEL memtest MENU LABEL memtest86+ v4.20 KERNEL memtest #--- LABEL seatools MENU LABEL SeaTools for DOS v2.23 LINUX memdisk INITRD seatools.ima #--- LABEL wdcdlg MENU LABEL Western Digital Data LifeGuard Diagnostics v5.04f LINUX memdisk INITRD wdc_diag.img #--- LABEL dban2 MENU LABEL DBAN v2.2.6 Beta MENU PASSWD [redacted] KERNEL dban.bzi APPEND nuke="dwipe" silent #--- LABEL pmagic MENU LABEL PartEd Magic 6.3 MENU PASSWD [redacted] LINUX pmagic/bzImage INITRD pmagic/initramfs APPEND edd=off load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=normal loglevel=9 max_loop...

...more, and also System76's. I've consulted and tried more other things than most of you likely want to hear about. No joy. I've also tried rebooting without any install disk, with a Fedora install disk, with various helps such as super grub disk, and finally even with DBAN. The machine doesn't even find any of those. On any reboot, it just goes to that CentOS error message, and stops. I've also googled for '"upstream testing" hardware' Any thoughts or experience??. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless...

...'s > what you need to do, contractually. > > If they've had a second discussion, and only want the data deleted, that's > another story. > > Is the data on a different partition than the o/s (i.e., /data? If so, you > can easily wipe the data, using say, shred, or DBAN (which offers both > 3-pass and the full 7-pass DoD 5220.22-M). If it's in the same partition, > and the same filesystem, you've got other issues. How do you *guarantee* > that there's no user data - say, installed third-party software mixed with > the o/s? > > Note t...

...es James wrote: > Is there a utility to zero unused blocks on a disk? > > CentOS 6.7/Ext4 > > I saw zerofree, but I?m not sure it would work on Ext4 or even work on > this version of CentOS. > I don't understand the point of doing this. If you want to sanitize the disk, use dban <dban.org>, which surely approaches industry standard for the open source answer. Just zeroing random blocks? Why? If you want to wipe a specific file, there's shred. mark

On Wed, 9 May 2018, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Federal contractor here, too. (I'm the OP). For disks that work, shred or > DBAN is what we use. For dead disks, we do the paperwork, and get them > deGaussed. SSD's are a brand new issue. We haven't had to deal with them > yet, but it's surely coming, so we might as well figure it out now. Does anyone use hdparm's enhanced security erase feature for wipi...

I understand this isn't supported, but I was curious will it ever be, and also I use a hard drive wiping utility not dban and when i boot off my usb stick and wipe the hard drive it wipes the usb stick :( Matt