Re: dd and mbr

Hi,

perhaps you can run

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=1 conv=sync

Am 11.01.22 um 11:41 schrieb Steve O'Hara-Smith:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:02:26 +0000 (UTC)
> Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The command:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0
>>
>> does not delete the mbr, I still see the partition table with
>> fdisk. My questions:
> 	It does delete the partition table, but fdisk is showing you cached
> data - the clue is in this bit of the output:
>
>               ******* Working on device /dev/ada0 *******
>               parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
>
> 	I thought there was a way to get fdisk to read directly but I
> can't find it in the man page now.
>