From: bush@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Mark Bush) Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS Date: 21 Jan 1993 11:05:10 GMT
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