Small change for mkfs.xfs?

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Subject:	Small change for mkfs.xfs?
From:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:29:17 -0500 (EST)
User-agent:	Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23)

Hi,

# mkfs.xfs /dev/md0
mkfs.xfs: /dev/md0 appears to contain an existing filesystem (ext3).
mkfs.xfs: Use the -f option to force overwrite.

This occurs if the filesystem is ext4. Need to differentiate between thetwo FS if possible?


Justin.

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