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Native backup/restore partition options

Subject: Native backup/restore partition options
From: blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org (Tom Metro)
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:12:31 -0400
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Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> Tom Metro wrote:
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/partition/zero
> 
> I presume I'd do this from the installed, live OS?

A CD bootable OS should work just fine for this, as long as it can mount 
(and has write access to) the partition where you want to write the zeros.

  -Tom

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