bug#30773: parted doesn't thoroughly erase old signatures

2018-06-18 Thread Phillip Susi
On 6/7/2018 11:23 AM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > parted doesn't wipe signatures. Use something like wipefs for that :) Sure it does; see ped_disk_clobber(). It wipes the first and last 8k of the disk, which gets most signatures, but I'm guessing ZFS is not in that range. LVM is another oddly placed

bug#30773: parted doesn't thoroughly erase old signatures

2018-06-07 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 09:46:24PM +0300, Anatoly Mayorov wrote: > Hi, > > I installed TrueOS and it partitioned the whole disk as a zfs pool. Then, > while installing Archlinux I used parted to create a new gpt table with > fat32, ext4 and btrfs partitions. Archlinux worked well. But Gparted >