reusing disk

[chuck lawrence]

Bob McClure Jr <bob at bobcatos.com> wrote:

> If you
> 
>   fdisk /dev/sdb3
> 
> it will misbehave as you describe.  If you
> 
>   fdisk /dev/sdb
> 
> you should be able to delete all partitions and then create one
> partition the size of the disk.  It will be called /dev/sdb1.

uhh, right.  I knew that.  I was just, uhh, testing you.  yeah, that's 
what it was.  I was testing you.  you pass.  I knew you would.

(psst.  I got $20 for you if you don't tell anybody else about this.)

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