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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Small change for mkfs.xfs?
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:37:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B8AF02C.3070904@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002270628120.17433@p34.internal.lan>

Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> # mkfs.xfs /dev/md0
> mkfs.xfs: /dev/md0 appears to contain an existing filesystem (ext3).
> mkfs.xfs: Use the -f option to force overwrite.
> 
> This occurs if the filesystem is ext4.  Need to differentiate between
> the two FS if possible?

Why, you're just overwriting it anyway ;)

FWIW, recent xfsprogs built against recent libblkid will detect ext4 correctly.

libdisk could be patched if anyone really cared enough but that's deprecated
going forward...

-Eric
 
> Justin.
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2010-02-28 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-27 11:29 Small change for mkfs.xfs? Justin Piszcz
2010-02-28 22:37 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]

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