Thanks for the replies. > I have just installed FBSD-CURRENT on a test box. During install I [etc]
> So, if there is nothing to be lost, just try it out and see what > happens. Smoke testing is a tried and true technique. Nothing ventured, nothing gained! > You kind of have to read the disklabel man page in conjunction with > the fdisk man page to make any sense of things, and then it may still > take some experimenting. Yes I think that's where I got my previous command line from (or someplace similar) although the example I read said 'count=15' vs. 'count=32' > If you have a bootable DOS disk with fdisk, you can clear the MBR > without destroying partitions by executing: > > fdisk /mbr I did know that, I just wanted to do it The FreeBSD Way(tm). > corresponding switches/parameters, but the questioner said there was > nothing to save on the disk Yes > and wanted to wipe it, so... Not necessarily, if I could do it without (potentially) destroying any data, that would be the ideal solution (for future reference). -- Cogeco ergo sum
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