On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:45 PM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > it's always been sufficient for me to > cat /dev/zero > /dev/sdC0 or whatever. Blowing away the first couple > hundred blocks seems to work fine. > > It does go out of its way to try to reuse what partitions it thinks it > finds. but if it's all zeros there you are usually fine. > > ron > >
I've also found that, if I don't feel like writing zeroes to the drive, I can instead shift the start/end locations of the fossil and venti partitions by 1, which seems to do the trick as well. John -- "With MPI, familiarity breeds contempt. Contempt and nausea. Contempt, nausea, and fear. Contempt, nausea, fear, and .." -- Ron Minnich
