From: ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@zoho.com>
To: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What is the proper way to remove an xfs partition?
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 17:34:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7887d301-c849-e740-57ef-39d9221fcc86@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837b6a2a-5989-385a-88e3-158f8b614637@zoho.com>
On 08/31/2017 11:04 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Fedora 26
> BIOS boot = legacy (EUFI give me hives)
>
> I have a SATA backup drive formatted gpt, one partition, xfs. I went
> into gparted, erased the partition, recreated the partition as ext4 and
> formatted it as ext4.
>
> Then I mounted it as ext4, copied some files to it, unmounted it. When I
> went to remount it, mount told me there was something wrong with ext4.
> So I mounted it as xfs AND IT WORKED! I repeated with the same result.
> The drive thinks it is ext4 until the second mount.
>
> Out of shear frustration, I did a dd /dev/zero overwrite of the stinker
> and left it running overnight. That did the trick, but it takes
> forever and I have four more drives to go.
>
> What is the official way to remove an xfs partition?
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
I don't know if you guys care about such things, but I just
request that gparted do a disk blank
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1487807
By the way, thank you all for the help and support
through all this!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-02 0:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-31 18:04 What is the proper way to remove an xfs partition? ToddAndMargo
2017-08-31 18:16 ` Eric Sandeen
2017-08-31 18:32 ` ToddAndMargo
2017-08-31 21:09 ` Eric Sandeen
2017-09-01 7:02 ` Carlos Maiolino
2017-09-02 0:34 ` ToddAndMargo [this message]
2017-09-03 12:34 ` Carlos E. R.
2017-09-04 0:03 ` ToddAndMargo
2017-09-04 0:14 ` Carlos E. R.
2017-09-04 5:06 ` ToddAndMargo
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