How to safely remove rest of GTP?

[Rodney W. Grimes]

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> 
> > It is impossible to have a corrupted GPT and some 
> > other type of partition table in the same time.

I believe that statement is in error.
dd if=/boot/boot0 of=/dev/ada0
Would not that lead to this very situation if done
to a GPT parted disk drive?

> Maybe when only using FreeBSD and gpart, but I'm pretty sure I've seen 
> forum users who have tried some crappy other formatting tool and have 
> overwritten the primary GPT with a valid MBR and left the secondary GPT 
> untouched.  This only becomes obvious when they bring the disk back to a 
> FreeBSD system.

As almost all MBR tools are un aware of GPT so well not do anything to
destroy the secondary GPT, so this is infact very likely to occur.


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org