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[Andrey Danin <adanin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you.
It seems to be a better way to wipe out previous partitions.

Guys, should we create a blueprint or bug for that? Low-hanging-fruit?

As I understand, we will simply modify a couple of lines in a file
https://github.com/stackforge/fuel-library/blob/master/deployment/puppet/cobbler/templates/scripts/pmanager.py


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:10 AM, Aleksandr Dobdin <sanek.dobdin@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have 2 cents to add in pre-script in a kickstart file.
> Instead of using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=10
> we can use the following commands:
> # sgdisk --zap-all /dev/sda
> # parted -s /dev/sda mklabel gpt
>
> from man sgdisk: Zap (destroy) the GPT and MBR data structures and then
> exit. This option works much like -z, but as it wipes the MBR as well as
> the GPT, it's more suitable if you want to  repartition a disk after using
> this option
>
> from man parted: mklabel Create a new disklabel (partition table) of
> label-type.
> Thank you.
>
> Best Regards,
> Aleksandr Dobdin.
>
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