CLearing the remnants of a a filesystem can be awkward. In order to clear previously used partitions for clean OS installation, I used to use lvm (to get a list of known volumes and devices, activate them enough to write to, an dthem delete them *all* with extreme prejudice).
Then i'd use parted to partition, as desired, and then mkfs to set up partitions. Doing this as a well scripted '%pre' operation can save enormous complexity in trying to trick the very limited and underdocumented 'anaconda' tools into doing the wreite things. Unfortunately, the parted that came with CentOS 5 installation media was not as powerful as that which came with the operating system, so some extra chicanery was sometimes required. On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote: > On 01/28/2015 07:21 PM, Brandon Vincent wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote: >>> >>> Any advice would be appreciated. >> >> Clonezilla Live does support USB 3.0. >> >> Out of curiosity, is the external drive you connected formatted as >> FAT32? The 4 GB file size limit would explain why dd would be failing. >> >> Brandon Vincent > > The target hard drive is supposed to have no file system format (just the > low level format from the manufacturer) -- not MS Windows, Mac OS X, or any > other file system format. It is supposed to be "brand new raw". > > Will gparted work to remove any high level format? It should -- the drive > can be accessed as /dev/sdj (over the USB 3 interface to the external disk > holding unit). > > Yasha Karant
