Re: database decommission checklist

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:40 AM, QuijadaReina, Julio C <
QuijadJC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  On Linux, you can use a tool called ‘shred’. It will repeatedly write 25
> times over on the disk. Make it a little harder to recover data if that is
> your intent.
>
> Just to re-iterate what Matt Zito already stated:

That won't work on some storage systems.

In particular it will not work on NetApp, and there may be others.

Jared

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