Re: cleaning partition

[Piete Brooks]

> 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

That is indeed an effective way to so it (if somewhat dangerous!)

If it's just to stop them being ext2 FSs, you need not write quite that much !

For ZAPping old PSBs, my `sb.pl' script has a `disable' flag which just flips 
two bits in the PSB to make it not recognised (I can flip them back ..).