Device Disposal

When a device is decommissioned, particular care should be taken before properly disposing it.

When a factory reset option is available, it is recommended to at least use that procedure. For Everyware Linux, the Factory reset procedure is described at the following page. The Factory restore procedure is described in the following documentation.
https://dash.readme.com/project/ec-linux/v1.0/docs/factory-restore

Secure Erase

To securely erase a partition in the gateway, the following command can be used:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=4096 status=progress

where X is the specific partition to erase.
In Linux powered gateways, the list of available partitions is available executing the following command:

fdisk -l