From: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: Alireza Haghdoost <haghdoost@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Filesystem Development List <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is there anyway to Delete existing EXT filesyste ?
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 23:45:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2072865.uB9JighqlC@merkaba> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB-428kSkEKS4p__H4thdskBej2xAz0qA=ZL0Ne0TMQ=bu2uHQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Alireza!
Am Freitag, 3. April 2015, 14:23:14 schrieb Alireza Haghdoost:
> Is there any way to delete existing ext4 file system and make the
> volume un-mountable. I would assume that there should be some way to
> discard filesystem metadata on the volume but I cannot find out how.
wipefs
But careful, it does what it says and you´d need a hex editor to undo.
Ciao,
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2015-04-03 19:23 Is there anyway to Delete existing EXT filesyste ? Alireza Haghdoost
2015-04-03 21:45 ` Martin Steigerwald [this message]
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