pvcreate: overwrite partition header with -fdev-dct-pvcreate-f

$ pvcreate /dev/sdc
  Cannot use /dev/sdc: device is partitioned
$ pvcreate -f /dev/sdc
  Physical volume "/dev/sdc" successfully created.

3 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/commands/toolcontext.h b/lib/commands/toolcontext.h
index 8f11a7714..bab84f1d4 100644
--- a/lib/commands/toolcontext.h
+++ b/lib/commands/toolcontext.h
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ struct cmd_context {
 	unsigned check_devs_used:1;		/* check devs used by LVs */
 	unsigned print_device_id_not_found:1;	/* print devices file entries not found */
 	unsigned ignore_device_name_mismatch:1; /* skip updating devices file names */
+	unsigned filter_partitioned_skip;	/* don't use filter-partitioned */
 
 	/*
 	 * Devices and filtering.
diff --git a/lib/filters/filter-partitioned.c b/lib/filters/filter-partitioned.c
index 642553ef2..8f468a567 100644
--- a/lib/filters/filter-partitioned.c
+++ b/lib/filters/filter-partitioned.c
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ static int _passes_partitioned_filter(struct cmd_context *cmd, struct dev_filter
 	if (cmd->filter_nodata_only)
 		return 1;
 
+	if (cmd->filter_partitioned_skip)
+		return 1;
+
 	dev->filtered_flags &= ~DEV_FILTERED_PARTITIONED;
 
 	ret = dev_is_partitioned(cmd, dev);
diff --git a/tools/toollib.c b/tools/toollib.c
index 9d488c5a7..5f5420825 100644
--- a/tools/toollib.c
+++ b/tools/toollib.c
@@ -5336,6 +5336,10 @@ int pvcreate_each_device(struct cmd_context *cmd,
 	if (cmd->enable_devices_file && !pp->is_remove)
 		cmd->filter_deviceid_skip = 1;
 
+	/* pvcreate -f overwrites partitions */
+	if (pp->force && !pp->is_remove)
+		cmd->filter_partitioned_skip = 1;
+
 	log_debug("Scanning and filtering device args (%u).", dm_list_size(&scan_devs));
 	label_scan_devs(cmd, cmd->filter, &scan_devs);
 
@@ -5350,6 +5354,7 @@ int pvcreate_each_device(struct cmd_context *cmd,
 		}
 	}
 	cmd->filter_deviceid_skip = 0;
+	cmd->filter_partitioned_skip = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * Can the command continue if some specified devices were not found?
@@ -5562,6 +5567,9 @@ do_command:
 	if (cmd->enable_devices_file && !pp->is_remove)
 		cmd->filter_deviceid_skip = 1;
 
+	if (pp->force && !pp->is_remove)
+		cmd->filter_partitioned_skip = 1;
+
 	log_debug("Rescanning and filtering device args with exclusive open");
 	if (!label_scan_devs_excl(cmd, cmd->filter, &rescan_devs)) {
 		log_debug("Failed to rescan devs excl");
@@ -5575,7 +5583,9 @@ do_command:
 			dm_list_add(&pp->arg_fail, &pd->list);
 		}
 	}
+
 	cmd->filter_deviceid_skip = 0;
+	cmd->filter_partitioned_skip = 0;
 
 	if (dm_list_empty(&pp->arg_process) && dm_list_empty(&remove_duplicates)) {
 		log_debug("No devices to process.");