How to delete all partitions for a complete reinstall

[Tony Arnold]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 09:11 -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
>         As you can see, dd with bs=1 took 2.231s. With bs=512, it took
>         0.011s.
> 
> And how much time have you all spent fussing over which way is faster?

I was just keen to improve my knowledge of the dd command and to satisfy
my insatiable curiosity about all things Linux! And the discussion has
been quite useful in doing just that.

Regards,
Tony.
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Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk>
University of Manchester