https://gigatux.com/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Wiping_a_terminated_server 2026-11-06T13:40:40Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.46.2 https://gigatux.com/wiki/index.php?title=Wiping_a_terminated_server&diff=886&oldid=prev 2017-03-30T08:34:30Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 08:34, 30 March 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To wipe a now unused server, turn the server off, booting into the SSD (Ubuntu, username and password gigatux) and then <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</del>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">blat </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">main hard drive</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To wipe a now unused server, turn the server off, booting into the SSD (Ubuntu, username and password gigatux) and then  </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* ''</ins>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">To get an idea of how far along it is, in another terminal, run </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* ''kill -USR1 &lt;PID of the dd process&gt;''</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This displays the current progress, not a continually updated one, so it needs to be run again </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">get </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">status next time.</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>Created page with &quot;To wipe a now unused server, turn the server off, booting into the SSD (Ubuntu, username and password gigatux) and then &quot;dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M&quot; to blat the main ha...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>To wipe a now unused server, turn the server off, booting into the SSD (Ubuntu, username and password gigatux) and then &quot;dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M&quot; to blat the main hard drive</div>

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