Hi Paul, on Thursday, 2006-03-16 at 12:44:15, you wrote: > > "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1" (but if there isn't any > > data on that drive, then go and try this...) > > > Thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion but it didn't make any > difference.
If there's nothing on it yet, you can of course zero-out the whole disk---bit of an overkill but will do the job :) I would have thought killing the boot sector would do it as well but then perhaps the volume manager could be looking for a root sector? cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665
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