From: Karel Zak Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 11:54:18 +0000 (+0100) Subject: wipefs: (man) add hint to erase on partitions and disk X-Git-Tag: v2.36.1~9 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1210e9724c252c0421f6a6e8b9add4f85a0693fd;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git wipefs: (man) add hint to erase on partitions and disk Addresses: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/1177 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- diff --git a/misc-utils/wipefs.8 b/misc-utils/wipefs.8 index cdc6b28119..303e66135e 100644 --- a/misc-utils/wipefs.8 +++ b/misc-utils/wipefs.8 @@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ in environments where a stable output is required. calls the BLKRRPART ioctl when it has erased a partition-table signature to inform the kernel about the change. The ioctl is called as the last step and when all specified signatures from all specified devices are already erased. +This feature can be used to wipe content on partitions devices as well as partition +table on a disk device, for example by \fBwipefs \-a /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc2 /dev/sdc\fR. Note that some filesystems and some partition tables store more magic strings on the device (e.g., FAT, ZFS, GPT). The