reusing disk
Kevin Raber
ktr at mtu.edu
Wed Jan 24 20:40:31 UTC 2007
chuck lawrence wrote:
> next question...
>
> I'm (re)using an old linux boot disk, now in an external usb enclosure.
> it has a small /boot volume (/dev/sdb1) and a larger / volume
> (/dev/sdb3). I gather /dev/sdb2, if it were there, was previously swap.
>
> can I delete all this and return it to a single disk? all the tools
> I've tried so far (fdisk, parted) assume these are distinct disks, and
> offer to create/delete partitions within them.
>
> adv(thanks)ance
>
Hi - we use Ranish 2.40 to reformat the boot sector, which gives you a
"new" drive -
http://www.ranish.com/part/
read the instructions, and it's safest to run Ranish when there is only
one drive in the machine (unplug the others, I hate it when I destroy my
OS drive...),
ktr
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