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Subject: MBR not overwritable with dd?
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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

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