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Date:      Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:08:56 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Subject:   Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?
Message-ID:  <500C1788.8000505@cran.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207221701330.2621@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <201207221038.q6MAc8kW022215@mail.r-bonomi.com> <500C0B21.3020001@cran.org.uk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207221701330.2621@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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On 22/07/2012 16:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M' works under Cygwin - or you can 
>> just write a load of zeros to \\.\PhysicalDrive0 .
>
> who prevents you to bood live CD or pendrive with FreeBSD (or 
> openbsd,netbsd,linux,solaris,whatever usable)?

Nobody - I didn't say users couldn't boot from a FreeBSD/etc live CD, 
but zeroing the disk in Cygwin is an alternative.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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