Native backup/restore partition options

[Tom Metro]

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> Tom Metro wrote:
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/partition/zero
> 
> I presume I'd do this from the installed, live OS?

A CD bootable OS should work just fine for this, as long as it can mount 
(and has write access to) the partition where you want to write the zeros.

  -Tom

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