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Re: [opensuse] delete partitiontable
  • From: David Haller <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:57:12 +0200
  • Message-id: <20090701215711.GA13541@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hello,

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <87f94c370906291605t2d184e8du9ff3d2771211fc01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Greg
Freemyer wrote:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx count=1

That will also destroy your MBR. :(

Of what use is a MBR without partitions? Anyway:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=1 count=64 seek=446

On files (images) you need to add 'conv=notrunc'.

-dnh

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