On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 08:59 -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:13:53PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > It's almost impossible to make libvolume_id stricter, in most cases, > > even the kernel mounts a mkswap formatted (and obviously corrupt) fat > > volume just fine and allows writing to it. > > Ok, thanks for the explanation. > > > It's mkswap which is horribly broken here and needs to be fixed. > > Hopefully the bug I filed with util-linux will produce some change.
That would be nice. In case you need to argue, the mkfs.ext* tools and mkfs.reisferfs tools invalidate the start and the end (md raid) of the volume too, to overwrite old signatures after having the same problems. > > You can just use dd and clean the volume before reformatting it. > > Right--I've done that to the partition, and now I have no problem. Yeah, but it's bad, that we need to do this after that issue is known for more than a year now. Thanks, Kay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
