[ILUG] blkid vs fdisk problem

[Pádraig Brady]

Ivan Griffin wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion - parted had them marked as linux-swap.
> 
> However, I stumbled upon a fix.
> 
> If I mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda2 then mkswap /dev/sda2  it works.
> 
> I had tried dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda2 bs=512 count=10 before but
> perhaps i needed to overwrite all of or the end of the partition and not
> just the start?

if=/dev/zero