Hi Vivien, Sorry for the late reply.
[...] > > After investigating more, it turned out that there used to be on the > disk, at the same place, a ReiserFS filesystem. I actually found out > the following : > [...] Hmm, that's an issue that was previously only known to me for RAID devices (see CAVEATS, first item, in the setup-storage man page). [...] > > A quick "wipefs --all /dev/system/swap" fixed the issue, and > setup-storage then ran fine. > Cool, to be honest, I didn't know about wipefs before :-) > > Now, on to "how do we fix this issue ?" > > I see several ways this could be done : > - add a "wipe" action that should be run before an install, booting > something like DBAN through PXE, and wiping everything. > - before destroying any partition/vg/other, perform a "wipefs > --all" on it. > I like the second solution better, though. > Me too, I really like that idea. I'll try to build that wipefs call into setup-storage, but don't know whether I'll manage today. Indeed this would also solve the problem listed in CAVEATS, which would be really nice. Best, Michael
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