Re: [bug report] umsdos ruins ext2 file system
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@sleipner.yggdrasil.com)
19 Jul 1995 23:30:50 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950718183056.5505C-100000@foo.hhhh.org>
By author: cloister bell <cloister@hhhh.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> that's cool. so do those of us with ext2 filesystems older than that
> need to worry about what may or may not be in our boot sectors? if so,
> what do you recommend that we do about it?
>
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/XXXX bs=512 count=1
... will do quite nicely. You may want to re-run lilo afterwards,
just in case.
/hpa
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