> On 27 Sep 2016, at 06:21, John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote: > That doesn't always work. In particular, if a disk was partitioned with GPT > and then you use normal MBR on it afterwards, the 'gpart destroy -F' of the > MBR will leave most of the GPT intact and the disk will come up with the old > GPT partitions, not as a raw disk. I wonder how feasible it would be to have a command which runs destroy for every known partition scheme on a particular device.. Sure there would be some duplicate zeroing but it's not likely to be significantly slower and considerably more robust. -- Daniel O'Connor "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8CReceived on Tue Sep 27 2016 - 00:47:31 UTC
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