On 9/15/07, Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com> wrote:
> In article <7b9699030709150707q31b54dased4b24fe42e6c866@mail.gmail.com>,
> Mark Thomas <thomas.s.mark@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Would it be wise/recommended to delete the 'd' partition of a used
> >disk before I run 'disklabel' on it?
> >
> >Example:
> >Someone gives me a 80GB drive from their Windows machine. I want to
> >add that to my existing NetBSD machine. First I use 'fdisk -u' and set
> >the partition sysid to 169. Then I use '# dd if=/dev/zero
> >of=/dev/rwd0d bs=8k'. After that I use disklabel to setup the
> >partitions I want.
> >
> >Does that sound about right?
>
> I would not bother zeroing the disk... It just takes a lot of time
> and serves little purpose.

Thank you christos

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