Partition Disk Options - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 7.1 - V1 Manual

Partition Disk options

All addressable locations are overwritten with 0x35.
All addressable locations are overwritten with 0xCA.
All addressable locations are overwritten with a pseudo-random character.
All addressable locations are verified in hardware using the Verify Sectors
command to the disk.
If you do not select the DoD option, these operations are performed only once.
Note: Using the Secure erase option, this task has a 36-hour timeout value on the
task server. If this task runs on a client that has a hard disk larger than 375 GB,
the task reports as failed on the task server. However, the task continues to run
on the client until it completes.
You must create a deployment task before you can run it.
See "Creating a deployment task"
You can run the Partition Disk task to create partitions on a disk drive.
See "About deployment tasks and jobs"
Before you perform a scripted OS installation, your drive must have partitions.
See "About scripted OS installations"
The drive that you want to partition must not contain any previous partitions on
it. If the drive was previously used and contains partitions, you can use the Erase
Disk task to delete those partitions.
See "About wiping a disk"
You must create a deployment task before you can run it.
See "Creating a deployment task"
You can configure the following options while creating this task.
Partition Disk options
Table 4-3
Option
Disk Number
Format
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Description
The drive that the partition is created on.
The format of the partition: Fat32, NTFS, and EXT.
Running tasks and jobs
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