> > > I've gotten into a wierd situation where the best course seems > to be wipe a (BSD) partition - without chnaging the size or location > - and then restoring from backup. > Based on the Handbook (sec. 12.3.2) the correct would seem to > be: > > make backup > cd / > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=1 > newfs -O 2 -U /dev/da1e > restore from backup > > Have I overlooked anything?
That will wipe the whole da1 disk , not just a partition on it. I don't know what you really need, but something like cd / umount /dev/da1s1e newfs /dev/da1s1e would make the current stuff on the e partition of slice 1 on disk da1 unreadable short of using one of those heroic super recovery services. If you want the old stuff back, sandwich that with the backup and restore. ////jerry > > > Robert Huff > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
