On 2010年10月12日 21:57, Gilles wrote:
> Hello
>
> At 15:46 12/10/2010, Steven Shiau wrote:
>    
>>> //This is what I use:
>>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=440 count=1
>>>
>>>        
>>    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record you can tell the
>> max is 446.
>>      
> Right, so I was wondering if I should zero out the first 446 bytes?
> The reason I ask, is the command above that I read on the web. So can
> you/someone confirm that zeroing out the 446 bytes is the right thing
> to do, or are there side-effects I should know about?
>    
Not very sure. Here we always use 446. So far no issue

Steven.
> Thank you.
>
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