Re: Bugreport - not really important

["Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> I guess we could blast - say 70KB - of NULL chars to the start of
>> the partition.  As far as I can tell, that should get rid of any fs
>> that Linux currently supports (Unless they try and use backup
>> copies in that case.  I guess we'll have to experiment a bit).

Keith> EFI partitions are basically VFAT but they have a backup copy
Keith> of the FAT at the end of the partition.  People have wiped the
Keith> start of EFI partitions and it still comes back as EFI.

Bugger.  We need to clear out some space at the end too then...

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Martin K. Petersen, Principal Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc.
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