On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:08 AM, obsd, cgi <obsd...@postafiok.hu> wrote: > according to: > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bioctl > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd3c bs=1m count=1 > > is needed. but Why?
Isn't already explained? "the first megabyte of it should be zeroed, so tools like fdisk(8) or disklabel(8) don't get confused by the random data that appears on the new disk." Luca
