On 2010-03-05 22:14, Mark wrote:
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:Why do you think you need to blank the partition before installing lenny? There *are* reasons to do that, but they have nothing to do with the installation of a new OS.Just a habit I've acquired over the years - I like to have the hdd blanked with zeros to ensure there are no ghost/residual files left on any of the sectors before installing anything.
That's *completely* and *utterly* nonsensical. mkfs wipes over the existing file structures.
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