Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 3/6/2010 9:11 PM:

1. Old installation using one of more reiserfs file systems.
2. Install Lenny without wiping; use one or more reiserfs file systems.
3. Worst-case scenario file system failure.
4. (reiserfsck --rebuild-tree) -> Links files from the old file system into
the new file system.

If you are going to put reiserfs on a block device, it is not overly cautious
to erase the block device, to avoid (reiserfsck --rebuild-tree) from
performing necromancy.

One more reason not to use ReiserFS. The fact it was created by a convicted
murderer being the big one, obviously. Long before that, when Reiser was
the hype, I never jumped on the bandwagon. I stuck with EXT2 until moving
most things to XFS.

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Stan


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