[Leaplist] Unformatting Hard Disks

[Kevin Korb]

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What do you have against RAID?

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:12:22 -0800 (PST)
"Ram K. Singh" <rksingh54 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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	Kevin Korb			Phone:    (407) 252-6853
	Systems Administrator		Internet:
	FutureQuest, Inc.		Kevin at FutureQuest.net  (work)
	Orlando, Florida		kmk at sanitarium.net (personal)
	Web page:			http://www.sanitarium.net/
	PGP public key available on web site.
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