> Define "some artifact"? It looks like it's basically blkid traversing > the table and overwriting any matches it finds with zeroes?
Basically, I would wipe a disk partitions using wipefs --all /dev/sda and load up cfdisk to write new partition but it would find already existing partitions (boot or swap, or whatever) if I'd replicate some partitions structure. Example: old /dev/sda (1TB disk, dos partitioning) /boot 512MB swap-v1 4096MB / 48GB /home 96GB /srv $REST_OF_DISK_SPACE (typically 750-800GB, database space mostly but web server and other odds and ends). new /dev/sda (after cfdisk): /boot 512MB (found by cfdisk despite partition signature not there anymore). swap-v1 4096MB (ditto). / 48GB (ditto). /home 192GB (ditto because of the starting point of the partition) /var 96GB (no signature found by cfdisk, mail server space). /srv $REST_OF_DISK_SPACE (no signature found). > And yeah, I always used dd for that. Didn't know there was a command. > and I don't see how making it not there but recoverable is useful? (You > can backup the contents of a block device with "cat" if you really need > to...) > > Rob My use case for dd is not for backup purpose (I'm not that inclined to save a bunch of infected windows boxes and their ilks) but for cleanup purpose. Al _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net