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Require mke2fs -F -F for really dangerous operations
authorAndreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Sat, 5 Aug 2006 23:05:53 +0000 (19:05 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Sat, 5 Aug 2006 23:05:53 +0000 (19:05 -0400)
commitc16e610c5100cd5829d969272af3035fac8e1a31
treecd202f765170e2d0a3c3bf521a4f67cee02b3ebf
parent8fe81a3d53fbaa1670ece5fb7fd11dd5ae45b8da
Require mke2fs -F -F for really dangerous operations

Disambiguate the use of "-F" (force) flag for mke2fs to avoid dangerous
situations.  The use of -F is needed for regular backing files and
for filesystems on whole block devices.  It should NOT be confused
with mke2fs on an apparently-mounted or in-use filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
misc/ChangeLog
misc/mke2fs.8.in
misc/mke2fs.c
misc/util.c