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meibabe

05-13-2008 02:20 AM

How to initialize HDD using Shell script?

Hi I need help in writing a shell script to clear off all the partitions on a IDE hard drive. Can anyone help?
Thanks
gail

Stéphane Ascoët

05-13-2008 04:10 AM

Erase MBR!

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/devicetoerase bs=512 count=1

harsshal

05-14-2008 05:07 AM

can't we use fdisk on whole device?

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