On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:42, maxim wexler wrote: [...] >Is there a > way to do a low-level format of part of a drive while > leaving the rest intact?
It is a contradiction in terms, partitioning is not low-level. Use partimage to save the partition to preserve and check/format the disk with provided utility. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, Compiled #2 Wed Aug 24 18:43:16 CEST 2005 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4325.37 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list