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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: My mistake....
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:50:26 -0600
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On Jul 11, 2002  06:02 -0700, Brian wrote:
> I deleted the partition, rebooted and repartioned exactly as before. I have
> run reiserfsck and rebuilt everything BUT when I try to mount the partition
> "mount" insists it's still an empty ext3 filesystem.

To overwrite the ext2/ext3 superblock:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<whatever> bs=1k count=1 seek=1

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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