Collins, Kevin [Beeline] wrote:
Hi,

        yesterday I created a partition on a SAN disk with parted. I
initially created the partition table as 'gpt'. Later, I decided I
wanted to use 'msdos', so I re-created it as msdos. Now, it shows as
msdos, but if I run fdisk against the disk, I get a warning about GPT:

# fdisk -l /dev/mpath/disk12
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/mpath/disk12'! The
util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/mpath/disk12: 155.1 GB, 155178762240 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 18866 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

             Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mpath/disk12p1               1       18866   151541113+  83  Linux

I can't seem to make that go away - I've even overwritten the 1st 1GB of
the disk from /dev/zero! Where is the disk storing this information that
I can't seem to get rid of it? Is there a way to completely remove the
GPT partition table?

If overwriting 1 Gbyte doesn't work, how about overwriting all of it? Or, if in the mood for adventures, the last part of the disk?

What did you use to overwrite the first part of the disk? dd?


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Cheers
John

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