Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:33:28 +0200 From: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: MBR not overwritable with dd? Message-ID: <200410101833.34113.Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net>
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--nextPart1583156.k1bAfKiTFH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I tried to null out the MBR with the BETA7 fixit CD with the follwoing=20 command: dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/ad0 count=3D16 After that fdsik still showed me a valid partition tabel! How? Does GEOM map the beginning of the raw device? Thank you in advance, =2DMano --nextPart1583156.k1bAfKiTFH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBaWReBylq0S4AzzwRAppeAJ9sO4QyOiN29vbMFwIuUajLxwywsgCdHk5q F/Pc4KMv0bS/PNGFw7IJ5HQ= =AQxR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1583156.k1bAfKiTFH--
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