Re: Just a quick question...
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:33:31AM -0800, Stuart Sheldon wrote:
> True, but we like to specify the number of blocks:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=50000 bs=512
>
> This only takes about 5 secs to run and clears the MBR as well as wipes
> enough off the front of the platter to let us create a clean MBR and
> partition table.
Oh, but your partitioner should simply be able to ignore the existing table,
no? :-)
If you want a really ugly workaround, you can of course use
cut -c 1-512 /dev/zero | head -50000 > /dev/hda
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