Small change for mkfs.xfs?

Small change for mkfs.xfs?

[Justin Piszcz]

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?

Justin.

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Re: Small change for mkfs.xfs?

[Eric Sandeen]

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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