[Leaplist] Unformatting Hard Disks

[Ram K. Singh]

Thanks Kevin, that worked...:):) now I am on my project to create a server with zero RAID.




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From: Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net>
To: leaplist at leap-cf.org
Sent: Fri, December 11, 2009 7:54:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Leaplist] Unformatting Hard Disks

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If those are the things you desire you want LVM2 not a partitioning
program.  With LVM2 you can do those things (except for shrink) while the
filesystem is mounted.

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:49:16 -0500
Jim Hartley <xjimh at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Depending on exactly what you want, you might also take a look at 
> qparted, lets you shrink, expand, or move partitions.
> 
> Jim Hartley
> 
> Kevin Korb wrote:
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> > If you mean wipe a disk with no data you can simply overwrite it with
> > nulls like this:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1024k
> > 
> > If you want to make sure the data is not recoverable then there are
> > utilities like shred that repeatedly overwrite the disk with different
> > kinds of garbage to make sure that people with a laboratory can't read
> > it.
> > 
> > If you just want to delete the partitions go into fdisk or whatever
> > partitioner you use and delete them.
> > 
> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:26:56 -0800 (PST)
> > "Ram K. Singh" <rksingh54 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> If there is a way to unformat and unpartition a hard disk.
> >>
> >>
> >>      
> > 
> > 
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