Thanks!

Kevin 

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jussi Silvennoinen
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:34 AM
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Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] How to completely remove GPT partition table?

> 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?

GPT resides at the end of the device. The space reserved at the
beginning 
of a device is too tiny.

-- 

  Jussi

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