Re: Improperly nested partitions, help needed!

[Svante Signell]

On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 16:18 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
[...]
> > So the solution is to blank out the first sector of /dev/sda3,
> > 
> > dd if=/dev/null of=/tmp/sda3 bs=512 count=1
> > 
> > to get rid of the warnings? Please confirm the command above is correct.
> 
> Not quite.
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/sda3 bs=512 count=1

I see my mistake of output file in my previous mail, it should read /dev/sda3 
instead
 of /tmp/sda3, right?

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda3 bs=512 count=1

> That should work.  /dev/null is for output.  You need input and a source
> of all zeros.
> 
> Probably want to save the original you dumped before on some other media
> just in case you need to restore it (although I highly doubt it).

Thanks!