[Gllug] Recovering disk space

[Martin A. Brooks]

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.

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