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

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-03-06 23:20, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 3/6/2010 9:11 PM:
>
> > 1. Old installation using one of more reiserfs file systems.
> > 2. Install Lenny without wiping; use one or more reiserfs file systems.
> > 3. Worst-case scenario file system failure.
> > 4. (reiserfsck --rebuild-tree) -> Links files from the old file system into 
> > the new file system.
> >
> > If you are going to put reiserfs on a block device, it is not overly cautious 
> > to erase the block device, to avoid (reiserfsck --rebuild-tree) from 
> > performing necromancy.
>
> One more reason not to use ReiserFS.  The fact it was created by a convicted
> murderer being the big one, obviously.

AKA /argumentum ad Hitlerum/.  Hitler was a vegetarian, so 
vegetarianism is wrong.

>                                        Long before that, when Reiser was
> the hype, I never jumped on the bandwagon.  I stuck with EXT2 until moving
> most things to XFS.

And when your machine crashes with unflushed data still in cache, 
splat goes your xfs partition.  Been there, seen that.

--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

"If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given
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