Wipe filesystem, RAID and partition-table signatures from a newly created partitions, in order to avoid possible collisions. It also seems we can enable libreadline for fdisk in Fedora. See also wipefs(8) command.-W, -wipe-partitions when. > exit with 'q' it will end up looping indefinitely printing the question.Īh, it seems non-readline version is broken. > different signature in place I'll again get the question, but when I want to > - with fat signature I can exit fdisk just by ctrl+d immediately. "All unwritten changes will be lost, do you really want to quit?" The question "Do you really want to quit?" is used only if you have unwritten change. Not a big deal, but does behave differently. This will flush filesystem, raid or partition-table signatures (magic strings). > different signature in place I'll get a question "Do you really want to The delete button actually deletes filesystems, using wipefs -a. > - with fat signature I can exit fdisk just by ctrl+c immediately. Package: fdisk Version: 2.36.1-8+deb11u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: Dear Maintainer, fdisk -wipe - created bootable live Debian using dd - wanted to create addl partition for storing data (sdb3) - previously (deb 10) used fdisk with -wipenever option, worked successfully - previous version 2. > ext4 or xfs signature we will get the warning with fat we will not which
> Reproduced with fdisk from util-linux 2.33.2 and indeed it is the case. (In reply to Lukáš Czerner from comment #8) Why is it useful that during an EXT4 formatting operation of a device, a partition table which is not going to be recognized by fdisk is then created while any fdisk output applied to an FAT32 formatted device indicates that a partition table was properly created since recognized by it. – In second case there is never a warning message. It is recommended to wipe the device with wipefs(8) or fdisk -wipe, in order to avoid possible collisions.' which involved the use of option '-wipe never'. It does exist another variant of message, 'The old ext4 signature may remain on the device. – In first case there is always a warning message. After each task had been achieved, I entered an fdisk session using typical 'fdisk /', which has then an implicit option '-wipe auto'. Package: fdisk Version: 2.36.1-8+deb11u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: Dear Maintainer, fdisk -wipe - created bootable live Debian using dd - wanted to create add'l partition for storing data (sdb3) - previously (deb 10) used fdisk with -wipenever option, worked successfully - previous version 2.34 worked as expected, current version 2.36 does not honour the -wipe.
I used it for two cases: to format as EXT4, FAT32 it used respectively 'mkfs.ext4 -F -O 64bit -L '' '/'', 'mkfs.fat -F32 -v -l '/''. Steps are (mentions are named according to Gparted's own naming): calibrate /, clear old file system signatures in /, set partition type on /, create new file system. To figure out what happens during formatting operation to a new file system, I run gparted. Developers, I realize how much I lack required knowledge related to current report.