Comment 2 for bug 177868

This will need to be done to the individual filesystem support udebs for any filesystems we care about in this situation. Maintaining separate copies of the format scripts will create too much of a headache. Published for ext3:

 partman-ext3 (49ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

   * Special case loopmounted filesystems as it's safer to format the
     underlying file, not the device.