Use dd and pipe /dev/zero onto the disk device (/dev/hdb)
then rerun fdisk and make sure that you see it sync and ioctl before you try
creating the new partition. If in doubt about it writing to the disk then
do a complete power off and check for certain that the partition table
starts off empty.
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:41:41PM +, Dave Selby wrote:
> I have since moved debian to an 80GB drive hda.
> I want hdb to be a single linux partition I can use to archive data.
>
> I used linux fdisk to remove all partitions on hdb, I then created one
> partition on hdb, ie hdb1 taking up the
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