On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:04:01AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > The basic idea behinid these patches is that we now get a bit more > context with the warning message for ext2/3/4 file systems: > > % ./misc/mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/heap/media > mke2fs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014) > /dev/heap/media contains a ext4 file system labelled 'media' > last mounted on /media on Mon May 5 08:59:53 2014 > Proceed anyway? (y,n) And actually, the place where this context is critically important is in this case (where let's say, the user typo's sdc3 when they meant to type sdd3): % ./misc/mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/sdc3 mke2fs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014) /dev/sdc3 contains a ext4 file system last mounted on /SOX-backups on Mon May 5 08:59:53 2014 Proceed anyway? (y,n) ... where this becomes a last-ditch saving through against the accidental wiping of the enterprise's Sarbanes-Oxley records. :-) - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
