On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:15:00 +0100, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] Previously J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) > wrote: >> I surely hope that this will be mentioned in the installation >> document soon. > Everytime you resize a partition that contains or will contain a FAT > filesystem it is a very good idea to fill the first couple of > sectors with zeros. Otherwise you can indeed overwrite data on other > partition, have format fail silently, and other weird things. > So: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX bs=512 count=4 Wichert, reading the followup from Arto, it would seem that you need to do this zeroing trick sometimes even when just partitioning for FAT. I'm adding a note about this to the installation manual now, BTW. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
