From: riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de (Michael Riepe) Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:08:07 GMT
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).
-- 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!