wiping a partition

[Robert Huff]

	I've gotten into a wierd situation where the best course seems
to be wipe a (BSD) partition - without chnaging the size or location
- and then restoring from backup.
	Based on the Handbook (sec. 12.3.2) the correct would seem to
be:

	make backup
	cd /
	dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=1
	newfs -O 2 -U /dev/da1e
	restore from backup

	Have I overlooked anything?


					Robert Huff