[Gllug] Recovering disk space

[John G Walker]

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:49:44 +0000 Mike Brodbelt
<mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> The DOS style partition table typically found on x86 based hardware
> is a data structure that lives within the MBR, starting 446 bytes
> from the beginning of the sector, containing 4 16 byte entries. If
> you want to nuke *just* the partition table on a disk, without
> trashing the MBR, you can do:-
> 
> dd bs=1 count=64 skip=446 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda seek=446

This is what I did in the end. So simple. So final. Thank you very much.

And thanks to everyone else who made a suggestion,
 
-- 
 All the best,
 John
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