[Gllug] Recovering disk space

[salsaman]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:

> John G Walker wrote:
>
>> What's the easiest way to recover my disk space? 
>
>
> If you're asking what I think you're asking then just wipe the 
> partition table and, optionally, the MBR.
>
> Both can be done at once with the 'dd' utility.
>
> Something like:  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<target> bs=1024k count=1
>
> The 1024k is overkill, the partition table lives much closer to the 
> start of the disk than that,  I just don't recall the offset.
>

If you can't boot, try Tom's root boot:

http://www.toms.net/rb/

No need for DOS floppies.

Gabriel.

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