Bug 561870

Summary:	mkfs.xfs now requires -f when operating on a regular file
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jim Meyering <meyering>
Component:	xfsprogs	Assignee:	Eric Sandeen <esandeen>
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Description Jim Meyering 2010-02-04 15:24:48 UTC

Description of problem:
mkfs.xfs FILE now fails when FILE is a regular file.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xfsprogs-3.1.1-1.fc13.x86_64

How reproducible: always, for me,
but Christoph Hellwig could not reproduce it in a non-blkid env.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. 
2.dd if=/dev/zero of=k bs=1MB count=2 seek=20; mkfs.xfs k 
3.
  
Actual results:
mkfs.xfs: probe of k failed, cannot detect existing filesystem.
mkfs.xfs: Use the -f option to force overwrite.

Expected results:
no failure

Additional info:

Comment 1 Eric Sandeen 2010-02-05 21:29:17 UTC

s/b fixed in xfsprogs-3.1.1-2.fc13 with http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev.git;a=commitdiff;h=c2b707cf506c83ad4ab38c97c11cf358cc0bec88