Formating disk before restore

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Formating disk before restore

Forum: Help

Creator: Roludao

Created: 2011-01-03

Updated: 2013-04-05

Roludao - 2011-01-03

Hi people,

I need to format a disk before to restore an image.
Inside custom-ocs, is there possible put a command line that format a disk?
If yes, what is the command line?

Thanks!!!

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Roludao - 2011-01-04

Because there is a problem when I restore an image in HDD with different partitions, therefore I need to format my HDD before restore an Image.
Please help me.

Thanks.

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Steven Shiau - 2011-01-05

There is no need to reformat a partition, since partclone will overwrite the file system.
If you mean you want to clean all the partition table on the destination disk, yes, you can use some commands before running ocs-sr like:
1. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DESTINATION_DISK bs=1M count=30
2. sfdisk -R /dev/$DESTINATION_DISK

Replace /dev/$DESTINATION_DISK with your destination disk, e.g. /dev/sdb.
//NOTE// Backup important data before you use Clonezilla. Just in case.

Steven.

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Roludao - 2011-01-10

Steven,

It's working!
It was what I wanted!!! =)

Thanks!!!

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Steven Shiau - 2011-01-12

No problem.
Enjoy!

Steven.

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