Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

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Subject: Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)
From: Mark <mamarcac@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 15:18:07 -0800
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>On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Aioanei Rares <debian.dev.list@gmail.com> wrote:

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>Something like dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda2 bs=4096

Thanks Aioanei, I'll give that a try. I know it's a dumb question I just don't want to get it wrong!

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