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- From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
- Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.233539.5777@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:35:39 GMT
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- >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".
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- Just a suggestion: it would be nice to take out the /dev/hda default in
- fdisk, and have it print a usage message if you give no args. Why? Because
- whenever you invoke fdisk you need to know what you're doing, and the
- extra hindrance is nice so you stop, think, and MUST specify to fdisk
- exactly what drive you want to change the partition table of.
-
- Just an idea. Might save a few people some trouble.
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- mdw
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