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eureka · 11-01-2012, 10:37 AM

Right before intializing of userstore parition (i.e. before creating of parition table and formatting of new parition), usestore script clears first cylinder of /dev/mmcblk0p4 with the following command (some values are defined with variables, but I've expanded them here just for convenience):

Code:

# clear the first cylinder
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0p4 bs=64 count=1

Does anybody have any hypothesis about point of this command?

11-01-2012, 10:37 AM	#27
eureka but forgot what it's like Posts: 741 Karma: 2345678 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: north (by northwest) Device: Kindle Touch	Right before intializing of userstore parition (i.e. before creating of parition table and formatting of new parition), usestore script clears first cylinder of /dev/mmcblk0p4 with the following command (some values are defined with variables, but I've expanded them here just for convenience): Code: # clear the first cylinder dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0p4 bs=64 count=1 Does anybody have any hypothesis about point of this command?