On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 10:39:20AM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Control: block 988830 by -1
>
> Hi Josh, Theodore,
>
> On Tue, 08 Jun 2021 09:14:41 -0700 Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org>
> wrote:
> > mke2fs with -E offset=N does not seem to take the offset into account
> > when checking the target to see if it seems to already contain
> > something.
>
> Same as for bug 989630, do you know if this is a regression?
Nope, this has been around since 2013, and Josh is the first person to
have noticed and complained.
The offset feature is super-rare, and most of the time it's used only
as part of an automated image-building script where the image contains
a partition table as well as one or more file systems.
- Ted
