Without further ado, the following was found: Issue: partitions → partition "Wipe filesystem, RAID and partition-table signatures from a newly created " "partitions, in order to avoid possible collisions. The argument I<when> can " "be B<auto>, B<never> or B<always>. When this option is not given, the " "default is B<auto>, in which case signatures are wiped only when in " "interactive mode and after confirmation by user. In all cases detected " "signatures are reported by warning messages after a new partition is " "created. See also B<wipefs>(8) command."