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- From: riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de (Michael Riepe)
- Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.000807.28623@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>
- Summary: me too
- Sender: news@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de (News Service)
- Reply-To: riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de
- Organization: University of Hannover (Germany), IFW
- References: <94187@mavenry.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:08:07 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- 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"...
- |>
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- 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).
-
- --
- Michael Riepe <riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de>
- Universit"at Hannover
- Institut f"ur Fertigungstechnik und Spanende Werkzeugmaschinen
- Schlosswender Str. 5 W-3000 Hannover 1 (Germany)
- ...so long, and thanks for all the fish!
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