-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2012-08-13 05:50, David C. Rankin wrote:
So, I won't do it, but what your are saying is I could zero sectors 20-63 on the drive, reboot, and essentially have the original disk back with the correct partition numbering and a virus somewhere in the restored sda1 waiting to strike again -- right?
Yes and no, because sda2 would still be sda2, the numbers do not shift down. The partition table is in fact a table (with four lines and fixed size and position), which task is simply to point to the start and end of space in the disk assigned to each partition. Erasing sectors 1..63 erase the contents of the partition, but not the partition itself. For that you need to use partitioning software to reassign, ie, to rewrite the table. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlAplpEACgkQja8UbcUWM1xKLgEAkb532r6qfUaZ4HOe6H3ogGPM zZa9nhU+O/QbZk622s0A/iG2HK7KcZVLf/aTSabwmmurL2MAxBmM+la65UIGYLo2 =cURY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org