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Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:50:02 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Looking forward to the new & improved installer

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In <41546787.919168A9@pacbell.net>, on 09/24/04
at 10:30 AM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>Thanks, Steven, I'll give that a try. First, I'd like to get the skinny
>on that PCLEAR (?) business, since it may be necessary to undo / redo the
>LVM data for the C:, and I sure don't want to make the whole partition go
>away . . . as happened once before with a different partition or two.

Ooops.

Which part of

PCLEAR disk [P][Lvm[S]][Br] = Clear info in P-tables, LVM and/or
Boot-rec

Purpose: Clear contents of partition-table, LVM or bootrecord
sectors.
The sectors will be completely filled with zero-bytes
(0x00)

Parameters: disk mandatory Physical disknumber, or * for all disks

type Ptable Partition-table sectors (MBR and EBRs)
Lvm LVM disk/volume information sectors
S LVM signature sectors (only valid
with'L')
Bootrec Boot-records for each partition

Only the first letter is required and
multiple types can be specified.

Output: Confirmation messages (interactive mode only)

Remarks: Confirmations (yes/no) will be issued for each physical
disk
when clearing partition-table and LVM-info sectors, and
for
each individual partition when clearing the boot-record.

don't you understand?

Steven

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