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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com>
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Subject: Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way
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On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, dannyman wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:58:12PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> [...]
> > fdisk -I is your friend. (DANGER: THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- READ THE MAN
> > PAGE FIRST!)
>
> Yeah ... I use it.  It seems to do the right thing.  Then disklabel doesn't
> work. :<

Well, I should have commented that for best results, dd if=/dev/zero
of=/dev/${DISK} count=32 to make sure there's no leftovers for anything to
trip on.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org


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