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

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