<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>This was hard enough to find that I want to stick in my journal. Hello, journal.<br><br>```<br># wait for /dev/sdc to become available<br>while ! blockdev --getsz /dev/sdc; do sleep 5; done<br># erase the tail - gets the RAID config<br>dd bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc count=2048 seek=$(( $( blockdev --getsz /dev/sdc ) - 2048))<br># erase the head - gets the partition table<br>dd bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc count=1024<br># cleanly disconnects<br>eject /dev/sdc<br>```<br><br><div><span name="x"></span>--<br>David L. Willson<br>Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist<br>COA LFCS CCAH RHCE CLP<br>Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)<br>http://sofree.us<br><br>This is a good time for a r3VOLution.<span name="x"></span><br></div><br></div></body></html>