On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Spencer Ogden wrote:
> Is there some thing more low level I should use to wipe the disk? Or should
> I try and ignore them and hope they don't cause problems? I didn't want to
> waste my time if I was going to have to wipe the drive, so I didn't get
> very far, but it does seem I am able to create file systems and mount the
> partitions I create, while the 'ghost' partitions spew a bunch of errors
> if I try these operations.
You can whack the MBR and partition table with dd:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX count=1024 bs=1
/dev/hdX being /dev/hda or /dev/sdb, for example...
If you do that and you're still getting "ghost" partitions, it's not
the drive.
Doc
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