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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:16:16 +0200
From: "Janusz Bossy" <janusz.bossy@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs meltdown
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On 7/17/06, Ralph Slooten <axllent@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the best way to *really* format a drive before recreating a
> journalled filesystem (reiserfs) so that I really know it's not using
> an old corrupt one or something? I have other working partitions on
> that drive so an fdisk is not possible: ~ `cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda3`
> ?

I always managed to restore my partition after mkfs.reiserfs and
fsck.resierfs --rebuild-tree -S. It should (at least I think so) clear
the tree and the journal.

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