Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:41:12 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dd and mbr Message-ID: <20220111104112.dd98218395b3edc567ab2031@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <4af920fc-eff1-a92e-d36e-1ba97079864c@gmail.com> References: <4af920fc-eff1-a92e-d36e-1ba97079864c@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:02:26 +0000 (UTC)
Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The command:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0
>
> does not delete the mbr, I still see the partition table with
> fdisk. My questions:
It does delete the partition table, but fdisk is showing you cached
data - the clue is in this bit of the output:
******* Working on device /dev/ada0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
I thought there was a way to get fdisk to read directly but I
can't find it in the man page now.
--
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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