From: Karel Zak Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 10:01:41 +0000 (+0200) Subject: blkid: more info about ambivalent results to the man page X-Git-Tag: v2.31~9 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=27fbfef33c1f23b5448b6cee856bcb3500b33c42;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git blkid: more info about ambivalent results to the man page Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- diff --git a/misc-utils/blkid.8 b/misc-utils/blkid.8 index b296f19f0f..8754a988e1 100644 --- a/misc-utils/blkid.8 +++ b/misc-utils/blkid.8 @@ -85,6 +85,16 @@ are shown, if they are recognized. has two main forms of operation: either searching for a device with a specific NAME=value pair, or displaying NAME=value pairs for one or more specified devices. + +For security reasons +.B blkid +silently ignores all devices where the probing result is ambivalent (more +collide filesystems is detected). The low-level probing mode (\fB-p\fR) +provides more information and extra return code in this case. +It's recommended to use +.BR wipefs (8) +to get a detailed overview and to erase obsolete stuff (magic strings) from the device. + .SH OPTIONS The \fIsize\fR and \fIoffset\fR arguments may be followed by the multiplicative suffixes like KiB (=1024), MiB (=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB