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- From: drew@hazelrah.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.235031.18992@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: hazelrah.cs.colorado.edu
- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <94187@mavenry.UUCP> <1993Jan27.000807.28623@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> <1993Jan27.062345.1839@sol.UVic.CA>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:50:31 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1993Jan27.062345.1839@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan27.000807.28623@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de writes:
- >>In article 94187@mavenry.UUCP, maven@mavenry.UUCP (Norman Hamer) writes:
- >>|>
- >>|> Something I'd like to see in the MKFS/MKEFS program would be a "are you
- >>|>really sure" thing if you try to write a linux filesystem onto a partition
- >>|>which isn't marked as linux... I tried to install the 99p2 SLS release,
- >>|>ended up writing a linux partition over my DOS partition (user stupidity),
- >>|>had to restore from week-old backups... Ugh. While I don't have anyone but
- >>|>myself to _blame_, it sure woulda been nice if it had said "this partition
- >>|>is marked as DOS... use fdisk to change to type 81 before proceeding"...
- >>|>
- >>
- >>The same applies to mkswap - I once wrote a swap signature into the FAT
- >>of my DOS partition (fortunately, I could fix it with dd).
- >
-
- Unix assumes that YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING, and doesn't burden you
- with any protections that are going to get in your way when you don't
- want them. Normal users aren't priveledged, and can't break anything
- important. Root is priveledged, and can break everything. So, when
- you are root, you should sit on your hands for thirty seconds after
- typing something, think real hard about weather or not that's what
- you really want to do, and then press enter.
-
- You'll only get in trouble if you let your fingers doing the typing
- get ahead of your brain doing the thinking.
-
-
- --
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit. | Drew Eckhardt
- Condemn Colorado for Amendment Two. | drew@cs.colorado.edu
- Use Linux, the fast, flexible, and free 386 unix |
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