Wipefs

wipefs reports signatures of filesystems or devices, or wipes them out so that they are invisible to libblkid and thus to the blkid program.

Provided by

Most (all?) Linux distributions incorporate this from the [util-linux] project.

See also

Programs:

• blkid
• cfdisk
• cgdisk
• fdisk
• findfs
• fixparts
• gdisk
• gparted
• mkfs
• ntfsprogs
• parted
• partprobe
• partx
• sfdisk
• sgdisk
• testdisk

Concepts:

• Partition
• GPT Partition
• Partitioning
• Partitioning guidelines

• man page

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