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    Wipe existing signatures when creating partition table · 813e5740
    Michael Weghorn authored
    As the sfdisk man page says on the option '--wipe' that
    specifies whether or not to wipe signatures in order
    to avoid collisions:
    
    > When this option is not given, the default is auto,
    > in which case signatures are wiped only when in interactive mode
    
    but sfdisk is not run in interactive mode here, since
    stdin does not refer to a terminal, and the sfdisk
    man page says:
    
    > It [i.e. sfdisk] runs in interactive mode if executed on terminal
    > (stdin refers to a terminal).
    
    Therefore, explicitly pass the '--wipe=always' option to
    sfdisk so that old signatures are wiped when a new partition
    table is created.
    
    Bug: 431628
    813e5740