How can I completely erase a disk or filesystem in RHEL?

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Issue

  • What is the best way to wipe out sensitive information from a storage device, and make the node unbootable and unrecoverable?
  • How to erase a disk and reuse it?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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