spaceman1013
01-09-2005, 09:54 PM
I have a old Sleeper'd drive that I want to wipe completly clean so I can restore an image I just made of my newly killhdinitrd hacked Tivo drive.
I have Johnny deaths mfstools 2.0 boot CD, not sure if their is a linux command on there to wipe drive. I assume the linux command is format, but I would like to know if there is some command or parameters that will remove all the partitions and wipe the drive clean. I am not looking for any low level formatting, just something quick and dirty to get everything wiped off the drive.
I tried restoring the image over the sleeper using mfsrestore, but that did not work. I figured it wouldn't because of the weird monte of the sleeper.
I know I can use DOS FDISK but would rather learn some linux.
[UPDATE] I just found out from googling that their is a fdisk command for linux. However, when I run it as "fdisk -l" it will not list the partitions of /dev/hdc and says it has invalid partitions. Probably because I started a low level format using Samsung HD tools and then canceled because at the rate it was going it would have taken hours to finish.
I have Johnny deaths mfstools 2.0 boot CD, not sure if their is a linux command on there to wipe drive. I assume the linux command is format, but I would like to know if there is some command or parameters that will remove all the partitions and wipe the drive clean. I am not looking for any low level formatting, just something quick and dirty to get everything wiped off the drive.
I tried restoring the image over the sleeper using mfsrestore, but that did not work. I figured it wouldn't because of the weird monte of the sleeper.
I know I can use DOS FDISK but would rather learn some linux.
[UPDATE] I just found out from googling that their is a fdisk command for linux. However, when I run it as "fdisk -l" it will not list the partitions of /dev/hdc and says it has invalid partitions. Probably because I started a low level format using Samsung HD tools and then canceled because at the rate it was going it would have taken hours to finish.