From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 5 05:50:06 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B6DD3D for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 05:50:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 768691C1 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 05:50:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [188.174.41.192] (helo=localhost.my.domain) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UCklD-00074k-6Z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 06:49:59 +0100 Received: from localhost.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r255nvCK002394 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 06:49:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id r255nv3R002393 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 06:49:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 06:49:56 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example Message-ID: <20130305054956.GA2339@tinyCurrent> References: <10423.1362431561@server1.tristatelogic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <10423.1362431561@server1.tristatelogic.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT r214444 (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Con-U: 0-guru X-Originating-IP: 188.174.41.192 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:50:06 -0000 El día Monday, March 04, 2013 a las 01:12:41PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette escribió: > I'm thinking: If it is worth putting a warning into the man page, > perhaps it is worth putting a warning into the code itself, to > protect the unwary. > > Anybody here ever used Clonezilla? A nice useful tool. > > When Clonezilla runs, and when it is just about to overwrite a target > drive, it first asks you explicitly "Do you really want to proceed (Y/n)?" > > After you respond "Y" it asks you again, one more time, the same question. > > I for one have never felt put upon by these safety catches. I know they > are there for my own protection. ... In the old days of UNIX V7 when newfs(8) was still mkfs(8), there was also a last and final question "Last chance before scribbling on disk." to answer. And even after you hit ENTER to confirm, there was an internal wait of some 5 secs to let you interrupt with Ctrl-C in case of error. Just remembering those days :-) matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: www.asciiribbon.org E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards