Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 02:28:02 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop Message-ID: <20110103022619.O49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20110102230702.N49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20101229120038.3DFB0106591A@hub.freebsd.org> <20101230133126.O36121@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTinCZuupW%2BGFMeL70nPO90tZAAJNj8g0SaOztsR3@mail.gmail.com> <20101231105353.S36121@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTinSbE8d=iYES78GJmYO2PyOAGHMjwQ%2B2HT45yxc@mail.gmail.com> <20110102102255.00004f57@unknown> <20110102230702.N49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da4 skip=N > > where N is the known total number of sectors minus 34, should do it? Argh .. that should be seek=N, not skip. Up way too late .. cheers, Ian
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