From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Sergey Zolotarev <szx@live.ru>
Cc: "util-linux@vger.kernel.org" <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fix partition order killed my hard drive (twice)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:31:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150413103115.GO3923@ws.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DUB119-W10D0E142F9CF92AA8A3436B4E70@phx.gbl>
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 04:11:05PM +0600, Sergey Zolotarev wrote:
> Is it possible that fdisk could damage / kill a hard drive after
> using the "Fix partition order" command? It seems that that is
> exactly what happened to me two times already, with two different
> hard drives.
Do you really believe that write some bytes to HDD may destroy the
device? I don't think so.
fdisks-like utils just write some data to the device, nothing else.
You can replace it by dd(1) or "echo 'something' > /dev/sda"...
Karel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-13 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-13 10:11 Fix partition order killed my hard drive (twice) Sergey Zolotarev
2015-04-13 10:27 ` Ruediger Meier
2015-04-14 2:53 ` Dale R. Worley
2015-04-13 10:31 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2015-04-13 13:58 ` Peter Cordes
[not found] ` <DUB119-W317EAA79F1829FA13DAEA6B4E60@phx.gbl>
[not found] ` <20150418034306.GF3933@cordes.ca>
2015-04-18 6:25 ` Sergey Zolotarev
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