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* bug in parameter parsing mkfs
@ 2013-01-25 13:42 Marcel Meyer
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From: Marcel Meyer @ 2013-01-25 13:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello,


we encountered a bug in the parameter parsing of mkfs after c&p of a wrongly 
written wiki article.

So

  $ mkfs.ext4 -Llabel /dev/device

and

  $ mkfs.ext4 -L label /dev/device

work as expected.

  $ mkfs ext4 -Llabel /dev/device       # note the missing "."

reports correctly "invalid blocks '/dev/device' on device 'ext4'" after 
invoking mkfs.ext2 as the default mkfs.

But when you enter the same wrong command line with an additional space in the 
label like

  $ mkfs ext4 -L label /dev/device

it formats /dev/device with an ext2 filesystem and the label "label".


Yours
Marcel


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