[Tux3] mkfs.tux3: wiping other fs signatures
OGAWA Hirofumi
hirofumi at mail.parknet.co.jp
Fri Dec 12 11:59:18 PST 2008
Daniel Phillips <phillips at phunq.net> writes:
>> We just had a NTFS corruption report when a user accidentially overwrote
>> his NTFS. Thankfully we found the tux3 signature, tux3 mounted fine then
>> the user also confirmed he was testing tux3 and formatted the wrong
>> partition.
>
> Set the first 4K and last sector to zero?
Ah, I was forgetting about it. I think, first 1024bytes (FAT, NTFS, and EFI),
and last 64kbytes (EFI, and MD RAID), should be enough. Right?
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi at mail.parknet.co.jp>
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