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To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Bug 220288] A typo Leads to loss of all data on disk
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:39:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-220288-13602-Y5xrdJ0OuY@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/> (raw)
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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220288
--- Comment #5 from Artem S. Tashkinov (aros@gmx.com) ---
(In reply to Andreas Dilger from comment #4)
> It is very common in my experience that ext4 filesystems are created on
> whole disk devices instead of partitions when run on servers, in order to
> ensure the filesystem is aligned to the start on the disk and with RAID
> stripes.
Not to mention that you can
mke2fs /tmp/random.file
and then
e2fsck /tmp/random.file
or even use a loop device with no number.
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2025-06-27 22:22 [Bug 220288] New: A typo Leads to loss of all data on disk bugzilla-daemon
2025-06-28 2:48 ` Theodore Ts'o
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