On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Antanas Masevicius wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i've been experimenting with raid systems. And like many newbies, i've
> formated partitions with mke2fs before i did mkraid. Worked only with
> --force option. What are ways cleaning those patitions?
If you use -force, then you should be able to just re mke2fs just fine.
If you /really/ want to wipe the drive or a partition to make sure its
gone (good idea if you're experimenting, then you know what you just did
made things work, and not what was left around since yesterday :) Try
these:
for a whole drive:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc bs=8k
For a partition:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc2 bs=8k
Put proper values into the of= parameter, of course. Be careful: There is
NO protection from making mistakes. Triple check the command line before
hitting return. (Yes, I've been burned.)
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