I successfully partitioned and cloned my OS using these instructions and I must give thanks.

If I may, I would like to entertain an inquiry to those more so educated than myself. (Sorry...I have been watching John Adams on HBO)

I was wondering if I boot to flash memory, go into control panel>tools>Clear Device would that wipe out initfs? The only reason i am asking this is because I cloned my filesystem with plenty of apps installed and I was thinking that if I could format the internal flash and flash a fresh install of os2008 then I could go back in case I brick anything. N800 OS2008 53-1 cloned on 4gb SDHC

Is this possible? Is <Clear Device> safe