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Remove all data on a firewall
Hello,
I want to make a donation to a school of old firewall and I want to delete all information on the hard drive.
What is the best solution?
If I do a factor-reset, a simple restart on the backup partition and I retrieve the information from the firewall on the date of the last update
What is the best practice to really delete all data on a firewall on all partitions?
best regards,
Jean Sébastien
# fortigate
# reset-factory
# remove all data
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Hi Jean,
1. FLASH
You could do a flash format so all data on flash is erased including image file(can re-image as well for use, please see Technical Tip: Loading FortiGate firmware image us... - Fortinet Community).
2. HDD
Another part to take care is the local disk which can be formatted using the below command,
#exec formatlogdisk
Best regards,
Jin
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Hi Jean,
They are not the same, while exec disk format <partition number/device ref number> would format one partition/device at a time as issued, the latter formats all partitions and/disks in one go.
Best regards,
Jin
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Hi Jean,
1. FLASH
You could do a flash format so all data on flash is erased including image file(can re-image as well for use, please see Technical Tip: Loading FortiGate firmware image us... - Fortinet Community).
2. HDD
Another part to take care is the local disk which can be formatted using the below command,
#exec formatlogdisk
Best regards,
Jin
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Thanks a lot for your answer.
do you know the difference between the command:
execute disk format 1
and
execute formatlogdisk
Are these the same command?
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Hi Jean,
They are not the same, while exec disk format <partition number/device ref number> would format one partition/device at a time as issued, the latter formats all partitions and/disks in one go.
Best regards,
Jin
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Thanks a lot for your answer.
