Just add the -f option to mkfs.xfs to make sure we can make a xfs filesystem when the device already has a filesystem on it. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong(a)cn.fujitsu.com&gt; --- daemon/mkfs.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/daemon/mkfs.c b/daemon/mkfs.c index f3975dc..a2c2366 100644 --- a/daemon/mkfs.c +++ b/daemon/mkfs.c @@ -85,6 +85,9 @@ do_mkfs_opts (const char *fstype, const char *device, int blocksize, if (STREQ (fstype, "jfs")) ADD_ARG (argv, i, "-f"); + if (STREQ (fstype, "xfs")) + ADD_ARG (argv, i, "-f"); + /* For GFS, GFS2, assume a single node. */ if (STREQ (fstype, "gfs") || STREQ (fstype, "gfs2")) { ADD_ARG (argv, i, "-p"); -- 1.7.8.rc3