From: Matthias Bethke <matthias@towiski.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:55:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060316175501.GA11044@huxley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603161244.15081.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 685 bytes --]
Hi Paul,
on Thursday, 2006-03-16 at 12:44:15, you wrote:
> > "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1" (but if there isn't any
> > data on that drive, then go and try this...)
> >
> Thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion but it didn't make any
> difference.
If there's nothing on it yet, you can of course zero-out the whole
disk---bit of an overkill but will do the job :) I would have thought
killing the boot sector would do it as well but then perhaps the volume
manager could be looking for a root sector?
cheers!
Matthias
--
I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665
Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665
[-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 191 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-16 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-16 10:50 [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning Paul Stear
2006-03-16 12:01 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2006-03-16 12:44 ` Paul Stear
2006-03-16 17:55 ` Matthias Bethke [this message]
2006-03-16 18:58 ` Rick van Hattem
2006-03-17 11:37 ` Paul Stear
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20060316175501.GA11044@huxley \
--to=matthias@towiski.de \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox