Make sure they are handled as options for the actual mkfs driver, instead of mkfs itself. Also, improve the documentation of --mkfs-options accordingly. This was fixed in diskimage-builder upstream as commit 5e2330d89c6c0e55b270464abea7e99a4d3246ad. --- dib/dib.ml | 3 ++- dib/virt-dib.pod | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/dib/dib.ml b/dib/dib.ml index 7f05870..3f36997 100644 --- a/dib/dib.ml +++ b/dib/dib.ml @@ -803,6 +803,7 @@ let main () = | None -> [] | Some o -> [ o ] in let mkfs_options = + [ "-t"; cmdline.fs_type ] @ (match cmdline.fs_type with | "ext4" -> (* Very conservative to handle images being resized a lot @@ -811,7 +812,7 @@ let main () = *) [ "-i"; "4096"; "-J"; "size=64" ] | _ -> [] - ) @ mkfs_options @ [ "-t"; cmdline.fs_type; blockdev ] in + ) @ mkfs_options @ [ blockdev ] in ignore (g#debug "sh" (Array.of_list ([ "mkfs" ] @ mkfs_options))); g#set_label blockdev root_label; if String.is_prefix cmdline.fs_type "ext" then diff --git a/dib/virt-dib.pod b/dib/virt-dib.pod index 09251c7..8be40ae 100644 --- a/dib/virt-dib.pod +++ b/dib/virt-dib.pod @@ -271,8 +271,9 @@ The default can be found with this command: =item B<--mkfs-options> C<OPTION STRING> Add the specified options to L<mkfs(1)>, to be able to fine-tune -the root filesystem creation. Note that this is not possible -to override the filesystem type. +the root filesystem creation; the options are passed to the driver +of L<mfks(1)>, and not to L<mfks(1)> itself. Note that +I<--fs-type> is used to to change the filesystem type. You should use I<--mkfs-options> at most once. To pass multiple options, separate them with space, eg: -- 2.9.3