Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)
On 03/06/2010 01:09 AM, Mark wrote:
I hope there is a simple answer to this question (fingers crossed):
how do I overwrite an existing partition (hda2 for example) with all
zeros (essentially blanking the partition clean in preparation for
installing Lenny), without destroying the partition table? I've used
the shred command to wipe partitions before, but it messes up the
partition table along with it. The purpose is that I have a 200gb
hard drive with music/pics/etc. on a separate partition from the OS
that I will mount via fstab upon boot. I've searched around and the
dd command can probably do it but haven't gotten the command line to
do it. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Mark
Something like dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda2 bs=4096
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