On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 04:44:33PM +0100, Bhasker C V wrote: > wipefs manual says -n for both noheadings and "no action" > the no-headings must be -i
I've only ever used two options on wipefs: wipefs /dev/sda3 to discover where the offset is for the filesystem info wipefs -o 0x100 /dev/sda3 (or whatever other offset was discovered above) to wipe it My copy of wipefs (stretch, util-linux 2.29.2) does not have a -i option at all, and does not have anything close to "noheadings". /sbin/wipefs -h Usage: wipefs [options] <device> Wipe signatures from a device. Options: -a, --all wipe all magic strings (BE CAREFUL!) -b, --backup create a signature backup in $HOME -f, --force force erasure -h, --help show this help text -n, --no-act do everything except the actual write() call -o, --offset <num> offset to erase, in bytes -p, --parsable print out in parsable instead of printable format -q, --quiet suppress output messages -t, --types <list> limit the set of filesystem, RAIDs or partition tables -V, --version output version information and exit For more details see wipefs(8).
