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Re: Bugreport - not really important

To: "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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