[SunHELP] disklabel

chad kellerman ckellerman at alabanza.com
Tue Mar 5 15:23:35 CST 2002


Eric,

   I am new to Solaris and disk names, so I ma not sure if this is a scsi or not.  But most scsi cards have disk utilities built into the bios of the card.

   THere is a option to low level format the drive.  That wipes it clean as new.

-chad

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 11:53:49 -0500 (EST)
Eric LeBlanc <inouk at toutatis.igt.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am wondering if anyone know how to wipe completely the disklabel from
> hardrive?
> 
> I tried this:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0 bs=1024 count=1
> 
> but, I have always disklabel... I can see with prtvtoc.
> 
> I want a Hardrive without disklabel / label from Sun.  A real hard format.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Eric LeBlanc
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