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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 00:25:17 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
-
- >probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
- >> Thats why unix is not for the faint hearted. There are plenty of warnings
- >> in the various README's and FAQ's about this sort of thing. For one, I
- >> would always back up completely before mkfs'ing a new drive or repartitioning
-
- >Forget the hacker-only attitude. SLS is an attempt to make Linux easy for
- >DOS users to install and use, which is an attitude I find preferable.
-
- >> These are just little things people have got to think about before installing
- >> something new. Granted the average DOS application doesn't go low level and
- >> mess with the hard drive itself, but then again this isn't an average thing.
- >> You are getting into the real world with unix, so you have to live with some
- >> real world things like unix is semi-cryptic.
-
- >DOS won't let you trash your Linux partitions with an ill-advised format.
- >Why should Linux?
-
- >> James (Who accidently mkfs'ed the wrong partition to once, but thats what
- >> backups are for)
-
- >I hate to tell you, but traditional unix mkfs tells you what partition it
- >wants to scribble on and warns you to hit DEL (^C with default Linux stty
- >settings, of course) within 10 seconds if that's not what you want --- so
- >even real world unix is better than the current Linux mkfs. (I grant that
- >BSD might have dropped it from their mkfs. My comment about the hacker-only
- >attitude applies to that.)
-
- >++Brandon
-
- >--
- >He's BAAAACK! Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org
- >Help stamp out OSF/Motif in our lifetime!
-
- You still obviously didn't get my point here. MAKE BACKUPS FIRST. Come on,
- so even if other mkfs's allow me 10 seconds that still isn't going to make
- any difference if I don't realize it. Whats next, mirroring of the old
- partition first??
-
- I try not to adopt this is for hackers only, but realize you are installing
- something thats a little more powerful than DOS here. If people don't
- want to make backups, and then get burned by it later thats their problem
- not mine.
-
- James
-