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Re: How to make btrfs forget a disk?



Anssi Saari wrote:
> Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> writes:
> 
> > "wipefs -t btrfs -f -a /dev/nvme1n1" did the job.
> >
> > Still wondering where those labels are stored on disk in Linux.
> 
> Didn't wipefs tell you? 

No. It just told me the offset, but I have no idea what is located at
that offset, and this can be important.

> I don't have any btrfs but for me wipefs prints
> at which offset it found which label. Like this, for a Linux swap
> partition:
> 
> # wipefs /dev/sdb5
> DEVICE OFFSET TYPE UUID                                 LABEL
> sdb5   0xff6  swap 8af9fb67-38ca-4c91-bbbd-d53c5ac1f30a 
> 
> And if I hexdump a bit of /dev/sdb5 I get:
> 
> 000ff0 00 00 00 00 00 00 53 57 41 50 53 50 41 43 45 32  >......SWAPSPACE2<
> 001000 01 00 00 00 8a f9 fb 67 38 ca 4c 91 bb bd d5 3c  >.....ùûg8ÊL.»½Õ<<
> 001010 5a c1 f3 0a 00 00 15 00 80 00 ff ff ff ff 03 00  >ZÁó.......ÿÿÿÿ..<
> 001020 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3d b5 04 00 00 00  >..........=µ....<
> 

So what is that at 0xff6? GPT, MBR, some superblock, some reserved sector?

-- 
Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE
http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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