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From: Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping
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On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> Try the following in preparation, to clean out old dirt first:
> 
> 	dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd2 count=100
> 
> Also, do add the -B flag to the disklabel command, even if you're
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> never going to boot off it.

	Does sysinstall use -B by default?

Best regards,
Andrew Stesin

nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE