Package: lvm2
Version: 2.02.168-2
This happened to me:
root@elbling0:~# lvcreate -L 10000M -n debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk
elbling0-vg
WARNING: dos signature detected on
/dev/elbling0-vg/debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk at offset 510. Wipe it?
[y/n]: ^C Interrupted...
Aborted wiping of dos.
1 existing signature left on the device.
Logical volume "debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk" created.
root@elbling0:~# lvremove -f /dev/elbling0-vg/debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk
Logical volume "debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk" successfully removed
root@elbling0:~# lvcreate -L 10000M -n debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk
elbling0-vg
Logical volume "debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk" created.
root@elbling0:~#
The documentation says:
-Z|--zero {y|n}
Controls zeroing of the first 4KiB of data in the
new logical volume. Default is yes.
and
-W|--wipesignatures {y|n}
Controls detection and subsequent wiping of
signatures [...]. There's a prompt for each
signature detected [...]. If this option is not
specified, then by default -W | --wipesignatures
y is assumed each time the zeroing is done (-Z |
--zero y).
The combination of these things implies that -W y should be the
default and I should not have seen the prompt as I did.
I think this is probably a documentation bug. I am going to try to
work around the issue by passing -Z y -W y explicitly. I have a vague
recollection of having encountered this problem before and of
-Z y -W y fixing it, but I don't have a reliable repro so I can't
say for sure.
Thanks for your atttenion,
Ian.
