[ale] low level format remote box

[Alan Dobkin]

On 9/30/2005 1:34 PM, lyric hartley wrote:
> I need to completely clean the drive on a remote box...and it needs to
> happen with just a file that gets uploaded...handsoff...I imainge I
> could use one of the tiny distros to boot into and run a
> script...thought I would see if anyone has any ideas or suggestions

If you have no physical access, but you can SSH into the system and
unmount the filesystem, then you should be able to use fdisk and/or mkfs
on the partition.  If you want something more secure, you can try
running DBAN remotely.  It can be run on just one partition:

Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot floppy that
securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically
and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect,
which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data
destruction.

http://DBAN.SourceForge.net/

Alan