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- From: bush@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Mark Bush)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.110510.8508@thom5.ecs.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 11:05:10 GMT
- References: <94187@mavenry.UUCP> <1993Jan20.005154.2927@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> <1jiq8pINN9r4@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory
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- Originator: bush@thom5.ecs.ox.ac.uk
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- In article <1jiq8pINN9r4@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
- #creacy@yuppie.enet.dec.com (Chet Creacy) writes:
- #>I second this idea! I did the exact same thing. I was trying to install linux
- #>on the 2nd disk; cranked up fdisk (forgetting to specify /dev/hdb); deleted
- #>partition 1; did a write; and, voila "DOS IS HISTORY".
- #
- #>Good suggestion!
- #
- #>Later,
- #
- #>Chet
- #
- #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.
-
- No reason why Unix should stay this way. It's one of the things that puts
- off a lot of people. Adding some stupidity checking would be nice. I've
- been dealing with UNIX systems for about 4 years now and every time I do
- something like newfs a partition or recursively remove a directory, I get a
- horrible queezy feeling until I'm able to convince myself that I haven't
- done something really silly.
-
- Mark
-