> On 2017-12-15, Stuart wrote:
> You can use dd to write zeroes over the start of the device to overwrite
> the partition table and disklabel, I'm not surehow far you have to go
> but would expect "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsdXc bs=1m count=8" to do
> the trick (with the correct disk number here ^ obviously).
..

Hi,

In the past I thought the principle was that you wipe the disklabel by 
overwriting the first megabyte (bs=1m count=1).

What is the safe practice really, 1MB or 8MB?

Tinker

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