From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@bmsi.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Newbie: Yet another "Incorrect metadata area header checksum"
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:43:56 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1002021242040.4976@bmsred.bmsi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002021725.05245.simonw@zynet.net>
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Simon Waters wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 February 2010 10:21:30 Simon Waters wrote:
> > Is this due to old metadata on the disk, or is there something going wrong
> > in the installation process.
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
>
> >From the Debian install CD, and then a reboot (otherwise the Debian installer
> remembers the old LVM information it read from disk when it booted, and
> complains things aren't like the use to be.
Above wipes entire disk - which is good for a fresh install. But
just making sure. Not so good if you wanted to keep some partitions...
A faster way to wipe the entire disk is to use the security erase
feature of SMART disks available via /sbin/hdparm.
--
Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
"Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-02 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-01 18:28 [linux-lvm] Newbie: Yet another "Incorrect metadata area header checksum" Simon Waters
2010-02-02 6:55 ` Luca Berra
2010-02-02 10:21 ` Simon Waters
2010-02-02 17:25 ` Simon Waters
2010-02-02 17:43 ` Stuart D. Gathman [this message]
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