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 4.54) id 1FJwlC-0008FH-R1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:59:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2GHwca4023285; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:58:38 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2GHsXqM024320 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:54:33 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Mar 2006 17:54:33 -0000 Received: from dslb-084-056-077-190.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO huxley.mblan) [84.56.77.190] by mail.gmx.net (mp003) with SMTP; 16 Mar 2006 18:54:33 +0100 X-Authenticated: #428074 Received: by huxley.mblan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BDA3D37A426; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:55:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:55:01 +0100 From: Matthias Bethke To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning Message-ID: <20060316175501.GA11044@huxley> References: <200603161050.10076.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> <20060316130125.0bf3866b.hilse@web.de> <200603161244.15081.gentoo@appjaws.plus.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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200603161244.15081.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 539cde45-47ad-48e9-8791-9830e72d6848 X-Archives-Hash: 16daa34c2ce1856c01d89ebd6ee0d076 --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Paul, on Thursday, 2006-03-16 at 12:44:15, you wrote: > > "dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/sda bs=3D512 count=3D1" (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=20 > 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 --=20 I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEGaZ1SNkXAPrDdmURAjX3AKDKdTVpolcL6RJfzJ6VFkMcN610JgCgjhAj 54N1ytFQSHEDajnUC4GYbXc= =kQH6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list