RE: DISK Sanitizer Help

I might suggest that filling up your disk space after the drives were
readded would be a great addition to making sure the data was written
over. I think you could fill up a disk quite easily with a series of
CRTNWSSTG commands. To me, that would be sufficient.

But does that technically qualify for a DOD wipe for institutions that
require it?

First I would say that it's a matter of perception.

Then again, it could be ignorance on our part. Just because we don't know
how you could crack data this way doesn't mean it can't be done. There
could be something we don't know - data stranded in sector markers from
new reformatting of old disks. Not that this is possible, just tossing
out a theory of what we may not know that the DOD might.

What happens of someone created their disks with a hot spare? Is the hot
spare sufficiently wiped by this process?

There's just a lot we may not know.


Rob Berendt