On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Eric Griffith <egriffith92@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: <snip> > They had various numbers for bs=, some 440, some 446, some 506, and > some 512. Normally I would've just shrugged and followed the wiki, but > notice on one said that if you zero out too far, you wipe out hte > partition table...which I wouldn't enjoy haha. looking in the wiki might have been enough. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GUID_Partition_Table btw, slightly off topic, concerning that ominous 1MiB post-mbr gap, which I looked up because it didn't seem to be noted anywhere in non linux-related sources: http://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=128152568828109&w=4 cheers! mar77i
