[PLUG] linux issues, identical hardware, one works with linux,the other just with windows. Solar flares?

Derek Loree drl at drloree.com
Sat Nov 8 13:30:02 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:52, Galen Seitz wrote:
> Karol Kulaga <root at loraksus.org> wrote:
> 
> > -To totally reset the partition information, write zero's to the drive, 
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512
> > 
> > Ok, cool, did. Took bloody long (like 3 hours for a 60gb drive), putting a
> > task in the background in a console is just so damn cool though ;)
> 
> The person that posted that forgot to add the count argument.
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
> 
> Without the count argument, the dd command will write to the entire
> disk, thus the 3 hours to complete.  With a count of one, dd will just
> wipe the initial boot code and partition table, which should be
> sufficient.

I did that on purpose, that way the extra FAT at the end will be wiped
out too, making very sure that the old partitions cannot be recovered.

Derek Loree






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