drives

Marcel Kunath kunathma@pilot.msu.edu
Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:58:56 -0400 (EDT)


>
> "Marcel Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> writes:
>
> > Now today I had a drive I had a partition table on and wanted to wipe and th
en
> > use the drive once again without partition table but I couldn't figure out h
ow.
>
> To wipe a partition table:
>     dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<disk> bs=1024 count=1024

Well this works for ext2 but I can't do it with reiserfs. mkreiserfs still
errors on the device.

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