All,
Is there a way to "re-initialize" as disk? remove the the boot loader and partions etc... make it "seem" like a brand new disk?
Thanks,
Jerry
On 13/02/06, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
All,
Is there a way to "re-initialize" as disk? remove the the boot loader and partions etc... make it "seem" like a brand new disk?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
Will clear the boot block and partition table on the device attached as /dev/hda. Use with care, obviously. :)
Will.
On 2/13/06, Will McDonald wmcdonald@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/02/06, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
All,
Is there a way to "re-initialize" as disk? remove the the boot loader and partions etc... make it "seem" like a brand new disk?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
I have found that disks that contained an LVM setup don't get cleaned up this way (refuse to accept a startover with LVM). I haven't done much experimentation, but I always use
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1024
My $.02.
-- Collins Richey The agnostic dyslexic insomniac lies awake wondering if there is a dog.
Jerry Geis wrote:
All,
Is there a way to "re-initialize" as disk? remove the the boot loader and partions etc... make it "seem" like a brand new disk?
Thanks,
Jerry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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