On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:59:20 -0400 (EDT), Geronimo wrote: > > Not sure about fdisk. Does fdisk write partition table entry only? > > ... or does it have side effects on existing data - like wiping out > superblock > of existing fs, so you have to format the partition? > I don't want to increase the damage, therefore I ask before doing anything.
That's an excellent point, Geronimo. Sometimes partitioning programs do stuff like that. I know the old FDISK command from MS-DOS used to write out a few blocks of binary zeros to each partition it allocated to avoid left-over data from causing problems. In the case of Linux fdisk, parted, etc. I don't know the answer to that question. One thing you can try is to allocate a small partition in an area that you know was free space, format it, put some data in it, delete the partition, then reallocate it exactly where it was before, and see if you can still read the data. Then delete the partition again. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/350791612.1732927.1301148600853.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
