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Erase VPS

I have finished with a VPS which is running centos, I need to wipe it before I cancel the service how do I completely erase it?

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  • You can go in your control panel and re-install it.

  • NickkNickk Member

    I usually do

    cd /
    rm -rf *

  • GIANT_CRABGIANT_CRAB Member
    edited April 2014

    rm -rf /

    Then fill it up with random junk files (if you still have a sftp session, that is) and then rm -rf / again.

  • n1kkon1kko Member

    @Falco33 said:
    You can go in your control panel and re-install it.

    No control panel just SSH access

  • ivanhivanh Member

    H> @n1kko said:

    He meant your VPS control panel.

  • n1kkon1kko Member

    My VPS has no control panel at all

  • dd a bunch of zero's

  • Is it OpenVZ or KVM?

  • I wonder what you have on that VPS. :P

  • remove all important content, then run

    dd if=/dev/zero of=zeroes bs=4k

    or, if it's KVM, boot from a LiveCD environment and run (assuming the hdd is /dev/vda)

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vda bs=4k

  • ahhh but your host (who has been monitoring this thread) has already made a backup copy...

    Thanked by 1linuxthefish
  • n1kkon1kko Member

    Was running cPanel I terminated all accounts yesterday so just need to wipe the rest off

  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran

    use DBan to nuke it, but i guess you get suspended because of high I/O usage :D

  • CarpeCarpe Member
    edited April 2014

    @seaeagle said:
    ahhh but your host (who has been monitoring this thread) has already made a backup copy...

    not a host, but backup of backup possible?

  • n1kkon1kko Member

    Thanks for all the help with this, got it sorted :D

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