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parted doesn't thoroughly erase old signatures

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Message #11 received at 30773 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Phillip Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>
To: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl <at> redhat.com>, Anatoly Mayorov <mt45 <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 30773 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30773: parted doesn't thoroughly erase old signatures
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:29:12 -0400

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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 one iirc.

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