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Old 12-04-2007
Raw partiotion in RHEL 4.0
I habe two hard disk in a RHEl box.I want to convert one of the hard disk to raw disk. Already linux file system is present in the hard disk.Please suggest some method
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Old 01-03-2008
dd bs=1024 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdXX
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Old 01-03-2008
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Originally Posted by ss_anoop
I want to convert one of the hard disk to raw disk.
Use fdisk and delete all partitions, then create a single partition of some type that Linux does not automatically use.

I'm not really sure what you mean, do you want a raw disk, a raw partition or an empty partition?

... and don't have an entry in /etc/fstab for it.
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