Maze Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 hello dear linux-expertspreparing a fresh installation: dd-revisited - so i want to do the best to prepare an installation.i am just in front of a fresh install of opensuselinux 42 Leap.note: i want to do a very fresh install on a notebook that currently runs under opensuse 13.2my hd has got 500 gbwhich partition-table should i use:i would like to run the dd-command before i will do the installation - do you think this is clever!?This command will overwrite the drive with zeroesdd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4k conv=notrunc I just want to make sure my drive is really zeroed out!! dd if=/dev/sda | hexdump -C | grep [^00] what do you say!?Which partition should i use!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Why are you zero'ing your disk to install Linux? That's really not necessary... just delete any existing partitions that you want, and create a new one. As for what partition table to use, just stick with the defaults for that stuff unless you have a reason not to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maze Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 hello dear scoostash if i want to install a opensuse linux-system - on the notebook with the following file system df -T martin@linux-o61y:~> df -T Dateisystem Typ 1K-Blöcke Benutzt Verfügbar Verw% Eingehängt auf /dev/sda6 ext4 41152576 5932992 34154628 15% / devtmpfs devtmpfs 2001824 0 2001824 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 2005896 2484 2003412 1% /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 2005896 2104 2003792 1% /run tmpfs tmpfs 2005896 0 2005896 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda7 ext4 421122648 5372380 414877944 2% /home martin@linux-o61y:~> well - you suggest to stay with the system.. if i want to do a fresh installation - should i not erase all with a dd-command. i think that i can stay with the above mentioned code BTW - which patition would you create!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 OpenSUSE has a graphical installer - just follow the on-screen instructions and click next a bunch of times. You don't need to make it more complicated than it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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