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Wipe Disk Partitions

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Michael42

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On a Solaris 8 system using the format command, what is the quickest way to remove all the partitions?

I want to redo all my partitions but ensure I start from scratch.

Thanks!

Michael
 
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Just set their start and end cylinders to 0. Best to leave partition 2 (backup) as it is though.

If you need to do this for many disks look at the man pages for prtvtoc and fmthard. Annihilannic.
 
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Annihilannic, nice suggestion.

Thanks! Michael
 
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Actually, I've just seen in a colleague's notes a quicker way is fmthard -s /dev/null /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?s?. Annihilannic.
 
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