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Re: any effect on data

 
Suresh Patoria
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‎01-22-2004 08:43 PM

‎01-22-2004 08:43 PM

any effect on data

mkfs /dev/md?

Above command effect in my exsting data

Thanx
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Jerome Henry
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‎01-22-2004 09:05 PM

‎01-22-2004 09:05 PM

Re: any effect on data

Well,

erases /dev/md....

J
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Mark Grant
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‎01-22-2004 10:04 PM

‎01-22-2004 10:04 PM

Re: any effect on data

If it worked and didn't produce any errors, whatever was on /dev/md? is now toast.
Never preceed any demonstration with anything more predictive than "watch this"
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Steven E. Protter
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‎01-23-2004 01:49 AM

‎01-23-2004 01:49 AM

Re: any effect on data

mkfs or the Unix successor newfs(which uses mkfs on HP-UX) will always destroy data on the target filesystem.

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