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Sugarat
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 Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 12:49 pm Post subject: How to Erase SunOS Partition? |
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Hi All,
I have just installed Gentoo onto my Ultra1/Netra J machine, but am unable to erase one of the disk partitions.
Looking at the table of /dev/sda it lists:
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Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 19 heads, 80 sectors, 2731 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1520 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda8 690 2731 1551160 8 SunOS home
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But I can't seem to delete it!
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Command (m for help): d
Selected partition 4
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When I look at the partition table again its still there! Any advice as how I can delete it, as the machine needs more hard disk space to be able to breathe!
Many thanks.
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ciaranm
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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dd nuke the drive.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1M count=1
WARNING: This will make all data currently on your drive unusable. Unless you know how to restore partition tables, anyway 
[edit]/dev/sd?, not /dev/sd??. oops...[/edit] |
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Sugarat
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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I'll give that a go thanks!
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