On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:16:34PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:41:16PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > This change adds the --force option which, when used, undoes the above
> > flag change. However you still have to use --force most of the time
> > when erasing something that isn't a plain unmounted filesystem.
>
> I'll improve the code. It's stupid disadvantage that --force is
> necessary for things like partitions tables. We have to use
> O_EXCL more carefully.
... it seems that this is unnecessary. It's possible to delete
partition table (open with O_EXCL) if any of the partitions is not
mounted. It seems that only mount(2) has any impact to O_EXCL.
I guess that --force is enough.
Karel
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