From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:59656 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753489AbbDMKbS (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2015 06:31:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:31:15 +0200 From: Karel Zak To: Sergey Zolotarev Cc: "util-linux@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Fix partition order killed my hard drive (twice) Message-ID: <20150413103115.GO3923@ws.net.home> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com