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

Phillip Susi <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:29:12 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

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.

signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, 473 B)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2

iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJbJ93iAAoJENsuw7lhAP6EYQoIALQvZj0aQUJR0kKBd5pJ1Epo
4f99Eb6VOW8g/PtYW9dT86KZeF9rhgrE4kZYUCTbEvrZoiDAk2t+OvkAj97mR1aw
X7mSTwikyhOeZqd8IsN44oM9f/vmn4wXJoSoYxmoYDU91YOH19rttwPnpdsDQv5U
yxb83VZc48uXLzJ1tXSgWz3K2EFUaDwhHiv3nUny9KrCwhFFT5RXFgTE/UHZ/Xzo
3Ud/WN+gnVYiPTnootJZpm1Eww94K2TW/2qfKS1OwjBakpuaJchaFBUC4WtG0jN8
B30ZnaOXA0gxusfUH0HcIQmi3TpcCOZ4rg5PAu+ifIQ9kku8caU04PMJuQyce84=
=a27N
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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