[Gllug] Re:wiping a partition

[john gennard]

On Thu 02 Sep, Chris Bell wrote:

>   Perhaps it is not too obvious, but if you are trying to use the new
>Debian installer, you have to move the cursor to every line that you wish to
>change and press return. If you wish to use a partition that is listed as
>"do not use this partition" then move the cursor there. If there is more
>than one other possible answer you will be shown a new screen, otherwise it
>will just toggle. If you wish to delete a partition move the cursor to that
>line. Changing the number of partitions may renumber some partitions. There
>is no need to remove data first. You may need to scroll down to select the
>next step.
>   Another probably more useful, although painfully slow, way of removing
>data is to "mke2fs -c -c" which will do a badblocks test on a partition,
>writing different patterns to the whole disc surface. This has the advantage
>of possibly clearing sectors corrupted by a power failure during write, etc.
 >Chris Bell Thanks, Chris, I've used the new installer a few times, and 
now have no trouble with it (the first time I did miss a couple of 
things which were "off the bottom of the screen"!) I may find the use of 
"mke2fs -c -c" useful in the future. I'm grateful. Regards, John.


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