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   Henrik Carlqvist to Joseph Rosevear   
   Re: When your boot sector has been wiped   
   22 Dec 23 06:24:32   
   
   From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:26:54 +0000, Joseph Rosevear wrote:   
   >       dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1   
      
   Be careful with that one, at least with good old MBR partition style   
   those first 512 bytes will not only contain the MBR code to boot but also   
   the partition table. However, with a GPT partition table the first 512   
   bytes will only contain boot code.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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