The argument when can be auto, never or always. It also seems we can enable libreadline for fdisk in Fedora. w, -wipe when Wipe filesystem, RAID and partition-table signatures from the device, in order to avoid possible collisions. > 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. Once the above command returns success, check the partition table using fdisk. "All unwritten changes will be lost, do you really want to quit?" Rest should be very similar to gdisk (n to create partition, t to set partition type etc.). You can create a GPT partition table with g with fdisk. The question "Do you really want to quit?" is used only if you have unwritten change. Partitioning tools usually don't wipe the filesystem signatures, fdisk also doesn't do that when deleting the partition, you should use wipefs. Not a big deal, but does behave differently.
> different signature in place I'll get a question "Do you really want to > - with fat signature I can exit fdisk just by ctrl+c immediately. > 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) This will flush filesystem, raid or partition-table signatures (magic strings). 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. The delete button actually deletes filesystems, using wipefs -a. – 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'. raid, and partition-table signatures by using the wipefs command. 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 '/''. You must use the symbolic link (symlink) to identify the GlusterFS storage device. 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.