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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
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Subject: Re: Small change for mkfs.xfs?
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To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
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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
 
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