Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:37:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net (Emanuel Strobl) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MBR not overwritable with dd? Message-ID: <200410110237.i9B2bOn12053@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200410101833.34113.Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net> from "Emanuel Strobl" at Oct 10, 2004 06:33:28 PM
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> > I tried to null out the MBR with the BETA7 fixit CD with the follwoing=20 > command: > dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/ad0 count=3D16 > > After that fdsik still showed me a valid partition tabel! > How? Does GEOM map the beginning of the raw device? Was it getting it from the in-memory informatino? ////jerry > > Thank you in advance, >
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