Yip, I typed /dev/null into the email and /dev/zero into the command
prompt...
Brain fart.
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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
>>>
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