You are wanting to keep the existing filesystem on the partition? If so, the dd command would destroy the whole partition (and filesystem). Unless using debugfs, you could determine exactly where valid data is contained, and dd out the rest. Hmmmm....sounds like a neat project. :)
Otherwise your safest bet might be backup the data, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda6, maybe a few times to be safe, the recreate fs and restore. -ray On 14 Jul 2003, Dennis Rowe wrote: > The command "dd" will probably work for you with /dev/zero. > > Dennis > ------- > > On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 10:47, Matthew Eastman wrote: > > Since I didn't clarify, the filesystem is ext3. > > > > -- Matt Eastman > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
