From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sender-pp-092.zoho.com ([135.84.80.237]:25383 "EHLO sender-pp-092.zoho.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752635AbdIBAeQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2017 20:34:16 -0400 Subject: Re: What is the proper way to remove an xfs partition? From: ToddAndMargo References: <837b6a2a-5989-385a-88e3-158f8b614637@zoho.com> Message-ID: <7887d301-c849-e740-57ef-39d9221fcc86@zoho.com> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 17:34:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <837b6a2a-5989-385a-88e3-158f8b614637@zoho.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org 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!