From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ERw0N-0007zR-Rj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:16:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9IIDTdt028524; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:13:29 GMT Received: from ms001msg.fastwebnet.it (ms001msg.fastwebnet.it [213.140.2.51]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9II9qLm012905 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:09:53 GMT Received: from [1.36.68.35] (1.36.68.35) by ms001msg.fastwebnet.it (7.2.066) id 4353A89E00060635 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:12:07 +0200 From: Francesco Talamona To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: low-level formatting a harddrive Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:05:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20051018154227.6767.qmail@web31713.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051018154227.6767.qmail@web31713.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510182005.01649.ti.liame@email.it> X-Archives-Salt: 2869633d-c361-483a-abb8-ae7dd2b66c08 X-Archives-Hash: 09c4092bacdd862cc3cb5b9f06fc1725 On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:42, maxim wexler wrote: [...] >Is there a > way to do a low-level format of part of a drive while > leaving the rest intact? It is a contradiction in terms, partitioning is not low-level. Use partimage to save the partition to preserve and check/format the disk with provided utility. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, Compiled #2 Wed Aug 24 18:43:16 CEST 2005 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4325.37 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list