Re: mkfs.xfs destoroys sun disklabel

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:13:18PM +0900, Matsuo Hiroshi wrote:
> Hi,

hi there.

> I have linux-2.4.19 with xfs-1.2pre2 running on sparc (sun4m).
> I've found a problem about mkfx.xfs included in xfsprogs-2.3.5. 
> 
> If harddisk has only one partition, mkfx.xfs destoroy its disklabel.
> ...
> # mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sdb1
> meta-data=/dev/sdb1              isize=256    agcount=8, agsize=64909

The -f option means "force" (as in "force" an overwrite, even if
a filesystem/disk label signature was detected).

I'd be interested to hear whether this correctly detects the Sun
label without -f though (there's code in there to detect it, but
I don't think I ever tested it on Sun labelled disks).

cheers.

-- 
Nathan