| To: | "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: Bugreport - not really important |
| From: | Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:15:42 +1100 |
| Cc: | GCS <gcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tom Duffy <tduffy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | Your message of "20 Mar 2001 08:55:22 CDT." <yq1bsqwr1dh.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Sender: | owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
On 20 Mar 2001 08:55:22 -0500, "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >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). EFI partitions are basically VFAT but they have a backup copy of the FAT at the end of the partition. People have wiped the start of EFI partitions and it still comes back as EFI. |
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