wiping a partition

2004-02-11 Thread Robert Huff
I've gotten into a wierd situation where the best course seems to be wipe a (BSD) partition - without chnaging the size or location - and then restoring from backup. Based on the Handbook (sec. 12.3.2) the correct would seem to be: make backup cd / dd

Re: wiping a partition

2004-02-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
I've gotten into a wierd situation where the best course seems to be wipe a (BSD) partition - without chnaging the size or location - and then restoring from backup. Based on the Handbook (sec. 12.3.2) the correct would seem to be: make backup cd / dd