[parted-devel] parted reporting old file system names

[Phillip Susi]

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On 12/12/2012 6:58 PM, Mike Fleetwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been doing some testing of wiping file systems, either using
> the wipefs command or by writing zeros over the whole partition,
> and find that in many distribution / parted version combinations it
> prints the type of the file system that use to be there, even after
> formatting with a new file system.  I'm doing this for a GParted
> patch I am working on. Can anybody explain the behaviour and how to
> fix it?

For some reason the partition must not have been zeroed.  Try reading
it back to verify.



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