How to delete all partitions for a complete reinstall

[Tony Arnold]

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 22:25 -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Zhao <klzhao at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>     Kevin> I wonder which commands (fdisk -xxx?  etc) can be used if i
>     Kevin> boot using ubuntu live cd.
> 
> I would use
> 
>         $ dd if=/dev/zero count=512 bs=1 of=/dev/hda

Should that not be:

        $ dd if=/dev/zero count=1 bs=512 of=/dev/hda

or are the two commands equivalent?

Regards,
Tony.
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