Dear all,
I’m trying to write a script for automated disk
generation, and before loading the software I would like
to zero out any partition table information.
Unfortunately
fdisk -z /dev/hd1
only works interactively.
Does anyone know how this could be achieved in a script ?
(I vaguely remember a dd if=/dev/zero trick, but I don’t have
/dev/zero on my QNX4 machine)
thanks in advance
Per Åkesson
Carmenta AB
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:23:43 +0300, Per Ã…kesson <Per.Akesson@carmenta.se>
wrote:
…but I don’t have /dev/zero on my QNX4 machine
I always thought that /dev/null returns exactly zeroes if you read it…
Tony.
For your inspiration I attached my old script reading informations from
partition table.
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Martin Michalek skrev:
For your inspiration I attached my old script reading informations from
partition table.MM
Thanks !
that could become very helpful.
Per Åkesson