On Sunday 16 May 2010 3:27:19 Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > I've tried various things, such as deleting partitions, reinstalling > windows and then reinstalling plan9... but I always seem to end up with > some residual stuff (e.g. the users I created the last time around are > still there...!) >
I can confirm this behavior. I've seen it many times during my own repeated installations of plan 9. Somehow, the plan9-created partitions/slices are remarkably "sticky"... The data manages to linger even after deleting and recreating the partition table, and even after reformatting said new partitions with, say, reiserfs or ext2/3 from linux. I found that in order to guarantee an absolute _clean_ re-install of plan 9, I need to: * boot into linux w/ a rescue cd * run 'shred' on the previous plan9-created partition * delete the partition(s) * clear the previous plan9-installed MBR with: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 ... otherwise... the next re-install of plan 9 ends up with data from the previous install. This is highly annoying and time-consuming, especially when doing repeated re-installs for whatever reasons.
