Formatting a disk

[Daniel Carrera]

rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
>> I did this:  dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb count=1 bs=512
[snip]
>> So now, fdisk barfs on /dev/hdb.
> 
> Did you delete the partition first thing when you entered?

I don't understand the question. /dev/hdb didn't have any partition 
information. It was a recently-wiped disk with nothing on it. I ran 
fdisk on /dev/hdb before the dd command and it was blank. Like this:

# fdisk /dev/hdb
...
Command (m for help): p
...

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

Command (m for help):


Cheers,
Daniel.
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