I’ve always got drives after a client leaves that we want to erase to make sure their data is gone for good and not recoverable by the next person renting the server. This is how I do it. I first like to remove all partitions, then run a destructive badblocks Read more…
I formatted a USB drive on my mac with exfat settings and then put it into the CentOS 7 server. When trying to mount I got the error mount: unknown filesystem type ‘exfat’ So we need to install exfat drivers so I can mount the partition. I tried to install Read more…
How do you reformat a SAS drive when when not in the data center? I’m sure you tried the same thing as me. I need to clean out a stack of old drives that got pulled from servers over the years and I have no idea what’s on them now. Read more…