[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?

Mike, can you try commenting out the if (!_have_kern26()) test before
_flush_cache (dev), in libparted/arch/linux.c and see if that fixes it?


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