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
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