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…
This was a weird one for me. We had a client ask for a CentOS 7 installation, one of the other techs always installs CentoOS 6 to do a Dell firmware update then leaves it to install what the client requests. I went to install CentOS 7 and it wouldn’t 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…