Hartmann, O. wrote on 09/26/2016 15:01: [...] > Using a fresh/new SD or USB resolves the problem. But the question > remains: how can I destroy any relevant GPT information on a Flash > drive (or even harddisk) to avoid unwanted remains of an foul image > installation? > > First guess was to write the last couple of bytes on such a flash drive > by letting dd(1) counting backwards, but I couldn't figure out how to > let dd(1) do such a procedure. The nightmare didn't end, while trying, > the SD flash card died :-( I use dd if=/dev/zero almost everytime when I need to install system on used HDD. I rewrite about 10MB on its start and then about 10MB on the end. I have some script to do this - simply takes media size from diskinfo command, substract 10MB and then dd with seek Hope that it will help you Miroslav LachmanReceived on Mon Sep 26 2016 - 11:39:29 UTC
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