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      p44 translator last edited by girish

      Dear all,

      In next days I've to change Cloudron server to a new one.

      How I can delete data of the old one, before ISP take back the bare metal server?

      Thank's a lot!

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        fbartels App Dev @p44 last edited by

        @p44 Boot in rescue mode and zero disks I would say

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          p44 translator @fbartels last edited by

          @fbartels Thank's a lot! Eg. using DD? With DD I've to format before?

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            fbartels App Dev @p44 last edited by fbartels

            @p44 yes, i imagine there will be how-to's to this, so just ask the search engine of your choice.

            No you would not need to create a filesystem for it as dd is writing direct to the partition.

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              p44 translator @fbartels last edited by

              @fbartels Thank's for this! I'll do a search about DD.

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                BrutalBirdie Staff @p44 last edited by

                ⚠️ WARNING ⚠️

                # as user root or sudo
                # If /dev/sda is your drive
                dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda status=progress
                

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                  p44 translator @BrutalBirdie last edited by

                  @brutalbirdie Great!!

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                  • girish
                    girish Staff last edited by

                    Depending on the provider, they already zero things out. For example, DO does this. Of course, you have to trust your provider.

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