Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 14, 2003 12:46 AM
You're kidding right? This is the safest way? Perhaps you may want to point out the tiny detail that deleting the partition wipes out all of your data.
Sorry this isn't the way Linux tools work, with M$ tools (fdisk) you are correct but _not_ on Linux fdisk, that _only_ make changes to the partition table.
Used linux fdisk a lot of times to repair the mbr of a fat16 disk what was destroyed bij win95.
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Re:Man, is this badly written.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 14, 2003 12:46 AMSorry this isn't the way Linux tools work, with M$ tools (fdisk) you are correct but _not_ on Linux fdisk, that _only_ make changes to the partition table.
Used linux fdisk a lot of times to repair the mbr of a fat16 disk what was destroyed bij win95.
Gtx Jan.
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