Hollis R Blanchard wrote:

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Michel Lanners wrote:

quoted

Anyway, the point was make sure you erase the PC partition map
_completely_, with something like this:

dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sd<drive> bs=512 count=10

This should scratch the first few blocks on disk, some of which are not
touched by Mac-style partition maps, and make it possible to do a
_clean_ Mac partition map.

As long as you don't try to make it with pdisk, which claims all disks
without an existing valid Apple partition map are 512.0 GB.

Uh?

version 0.7a3 (18 February 1998)

[root@Jay linux]# /sbin/pdisk -i
Top level command (? for help): e /dev/sdb
Edit /dev/sdb -
Command (? for help): i
map already exists
do you want to reinit? [n/y]: y
A physical block is 512 bytes: 2048
A logical block is 512 bytes: 2048
size of 'device' is 555555 blocks (2048 byte blocks): 123456
new size of 'device' is 123456 blocks (2048 byte blocks)
Command (? for help):


Bye.


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