On Monday 23 July 2001 20:58, Kurt Wall babbled:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 06:01:37PM -0400, Douglas J. Hunley wrote:
> > I understand that 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xx bs=512k count=1'
> > will zero out the MBR, but does it also get the partition table? or
> > should a count of 2 (3?) be used?
> > thanks!
>
> Oops. "bs=512k" means 512 kilobtyes. Strongly recommend you try
> "bs=512" instead.
doh!
but wait! would it matter since the drive is going to be repartitioned ,
reformatted, and reloaded?
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