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-rw-r--r--disk-utils/mkfs.bfs.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.bfs.c b/disk-utils/mkfs.bfs.c
index 70571945d..ff075678b 100644
--- a/disk-utils/mkfs.bfs.c
+++ b/disk-utils/mkfs.bfs.c
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
if (!S_ISBLK(statbuf.st_mode))
errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("%s is not a block special device"), device);
- fd = open(device, O_RDWR | O_EXCL);
+ fd = open_blkdev_or_file(&statbuf, device, O_RDWR);
if (fd < 0)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("cannot open %s"), device);