Re: fdisk behavior on a gpt partitioned disks

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 29 May 2009, Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
> To be honest, the fdisk patch will delete GPT headers only, leaving
> GUID tables intact. So, it should be possible to reconstruct GPT
> partitioning back :)

It might make sense to just destroy a magic number, leaving most of the
GPT headers intact; this would make it easy to recover if somebody makes
a mistake.

--apb (Alan Barrett)