Yes, I used dd... I could overwrite the whole thing, but I didn't think about it being elsewhere on the disk and didn't want to wait for 155GB to write :)
Thanks, Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:13 PM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] How to completely remove GPT partition table? 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? -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
