| To: | Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: Small change for mkfs.xfs? |
| From: | Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:37:32 -0600 |
| Cc: | xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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Justin Piszcz wrote: > 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 > the two FS if possible? Why, you're just overwriting it anyway ;) FWIW, recent xfsprogs built against recent libblkid will detect ext4 correctly. libdisk could be patched if anyone really cared enough but that's deprecated going forward... -Eric > Justin. > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs > |
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