On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 09:53:10AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > We can not afford to return anything we are not sure about. It may > result in serious data corruption and data loss to return the wrong > type of filesystem. Therefore we don't return anything if we find > conflicting signatures, and require the user to fix the metadada and > remove invalid conflicting signatures from the device to make the > auto-detection working. Or not to rely on auto-probing and use the > specified values from fstab. That's a reasonable attitude to take; it relies on mkfs/mkswap/LUKS setup programs to be sane, which ten years ago was certainly not the case. Of course some of them (i.e. Microsoft Window's format.exe) aren't under our control, but it's rare that a user will install Linux first, and then install Windows afterwards. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
