On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:25:19AM +1130, Mike Andrew wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 July 2001 09:31, Douglas J. Hunley wrote:
> > I understand that 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xx bs=512k count=1'
> > will zero out the MBR, but does it also get the partition table? or should
> > a count of 2 (3?) be used?
> > thanks!
>
> oooh, that aint what you want at all. you specified a scribble of one single
> block of 512,000 bytes !!!!
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xx bs=512 count=1
Of course, Mike "The MBR King" beat me to it...
K
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