[Bug 1311042] Re: mkfs is writing debug message to error stream

[Martin Pitt]

For the record, we won't fix issues like that downstream in Ubuntu. They
might get fixed upstream.

** Package changed: systemd (Ubuntu) => e2fsprogs (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  mkfs is writing debug message to error stream

Status in “e2fsprogs” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  While formatting a drive mkfs writes debug information to error stream
  on Ubuntu 13.10 server

  uname -a
  Linux ubuntu13-10 3.11.0-19-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 11 18:48:34 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  Steps : 
  1 Execute Mkfs command with options as follows
  # 2>err.txt 1>output.txt mkfs -F -t ext4 /dev/sdb

  2 Display the content of both files

  #cat err.txt
  mke2fs 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013)

  
  # cat output.txt
  Discarding device blocks: done
  Filesystem label=
  OS type: Linux
  Block size=4096 (log=2)
  Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
  Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
  8323072 inodes, 33292288 blocks
  1664614 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
  First data block=0
  Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296
  1016 block groups
  32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
  8192 inodes per group
  Superblock backups stored on blocks:
          32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
          4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872

  Allocating group tables: done
  Writing inode tables: done
  Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
  Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

  
  3 Ideally it should not write Debug Info to Error Stream.

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