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On 18/03/2017 02:55, tuxic@××××××.de wrote: |
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> On 03/17 11:20, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> On Friday 17 Mar 2017 19:10:03 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> As Grant said, we don't really know what you are up to from the given |
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>>> information. |
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>> In particular, at least some of us don't know what you mean by a root. |
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>> Regards |
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>> Peter |
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> Hi, |
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> I want to wipe a partition from old stuff, so that: |
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> 1) a new mkfs.whatever will not revive the old stuff |
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> 2) the wipe does not to be "cryptograohically secure" (i.e. dd |
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> if=/dev/zero of=/dev/partition) |
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> 3) only the contents of partition and nothing else will be wiped |
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> I will try to mkfs.ext4 the partition as Nils suggested. |
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> Ext4 was also the previous fs. |
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2) will do what you want |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |