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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wiping the old root without killing the new root
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 08:45:30
Message-Id: 696ff143-cb8d-dfee-ed81-2e35313edbd2@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Wiping the old root without killing the new root by tuxic@posteo.de
1 On 18/03/2017 02:55, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
2 > On 03/17 11:20, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 >> On Friday 17 Mar 2017 19:10:03 Alan McKinnon wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> As Grant said, we don't really know what you are up to from the given
6 >>> information.
7 >>
8 >> In particular, at least some of us don't know what you mean by a root.
9 >>
10 >> --
11 >> Regards
12 >> Peter
13 >>
14 >>
15 >
16 > Hi,
17 >
18 > I want to wipe a partition from old stuff, so that:
19 > 1) a new mkfs.whatever will not revive the old stuff
20 > 2) the wipe does not to be "cryptograohically secure" (i.e. dd
21 > if=/dev/zero of=/dev/partition)
22 > 3) only the contents of partition and nothing else will be wiped
23 >
24 > I will try to mkfs.ext4 the partition as Nils suggested.
25 > Ext4 was also the previous fs.
26
27 2) will do what you want
28
29
30 --
31 Alan McKinnon
32 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com