kim wrote: > > James Hartley wrote: > > > > > ...will reveal that *any* partition found upon entering disklabel > > should be deleted *except* leave partition 'c' as is. I > have done it > > this way for years without any issue. > > Just out of interest, what happens when you delete the 'c' > partition? I > understood it deleted the drive spec but is this > irreversible? can you > low level format the drive or repopulate the information some > other way, > or with some other format software? > > Thats a curiosity killed the cat type question. > > Thanks > > Kim Best I can tell, the 'c' "partition" is conventional for referring to anything that is physically on the disk. (and probably is actually used that way) Deleteing the 'c' partition would make the drive unuseable. Making any new disklabel should bring it back. Putting strange values in the 'c' partition might do very bad things. (similar to confusion of counting starting with 1 and with 0)
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