Re: What is the proper way to remove an xfs partition?

ToddAndMargo
2017-09-02T00:34:16Z

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!