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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?

Was it getting it from the in-memory informatino?

////jerry

> 
> Thank you in advance,
>