Com base na sua edição, acho que você pode achar bastante útil o seguinte:
man wipefs
DESCRIÇÃO
wipefscan erase filesystem, raid or partition-table signatures (magic strings) from the specified device to make the signatures invisible forlibblkid...
OPÇÕES
-a,--allErase all available signatures. The set of erased signatures can be restricted with the-tlist option.
-b,--backupCreate a signature backup to the file$HOME/wipefs-<devname>-<offset>.bak. For more details see EXAMPLES section...
EXEMPLOS
wipefs --all --backup /dev/sdb
Erases all signatures from the device
/dev/sdband creates a signature backup file~/wipefs-sdb-<offset>.bakfor each signature.
dd if=~/wipefs-sdb-0x00000438.bak of=/dev/sdb \
seek=$((0x00000438)) bs=1 conv=notrunc
Restores
ext2signature from the backup file~/wipefs-sdb-0x00000438.bak.