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| author | Karel Zak | 2017-05-11 15:54:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2017-05-11 15:54:30 +0200 |
| commit | 5d217e6f158411dbd363a6ed5d3a7693ca87e847 (patch) | |
| tree | 63fbe8ff4798e45afd4e22fb7b66354f2a15b020 | |
| parent | fdisk: fix type dialog (diff) | |
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wipefs: add note about no-act to the man page
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/wipefs.8 | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/wipefs.8 b/misc-utils/wipefs.8 index 666c03c93..b7c7467fe 100644 --- a/misc-utils/wipefs.8 +++ b/misc-utils/wipefs.8 @@ -32,10 +32,14 @@ the device. The command lists only the first offset where a magic string has been detected. The device is not scanned for additional magic strings for the same filesystem. It is possible that after a \fBwipefs -o \fIoffset\fR the same filesystem or partition -table will still be visible because of another magic string on another offset. +table will still be visible because of another magic string on another offset. The +option \fB\-\-no\-act\fR is also affected by this behavior and only the first +magic string for the filesystem is reported. When option \fB-a\fR is used, all magic strings that are visible for libblkid are -erased. +erased. In this case the +.B wipefs +scans the device again after each modification (erase) until no magic string is found. Note that by default .B wipefs |