Best way to clear/clean a HD
Ted Kaczmarek
tedkaz at optonline.net
Wed Jun 29 00:58:46 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 15:56 -0700, Steven R. Ringwald wrote:
> Todd Cary wrote:
>
> > I have Fedora 3 on my box, but Fedora 4 cannot get to the choice of
> > Updating or Replacing. I need to remove the current FC3. What is the
> > best way to do that?
>
>
> Well, you could use mke2fs (or whichever other flavour you prefer) to
> wipe the partitions out). If that fails, fdisk the drive and delete the
> partitions.
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=200
>
> should also do a good job of wiping out the partition table. (assuming
> your drive is hda).
>
> Steve
>
I only needed a little over a gig free to yum upgrade from fc3 to fc4.
Ted
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