On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Jackrabbit Slim wrote: > if I run it like this: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 > > it will convert the entire hard drive to zeros right? If I do that would I > be able to rebuild partitions and the partition table from fdisk?
ouch. boy, you really are on a mission here. the only issue is that you would also zero the final two bytes of the MBR, which are x"aa55", the standard signature of a PC's master boot record. i don't know enough about whether certain programs require that signature to be present to recognize a boot record, so i'd be *very* reluctant to overwrite them. but i don't see why you'd need to zero the *entire* disk, when zeroing the disk's partition table is effectively doing the same thing. rday _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
