From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 30 09:54:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA25227 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 May 1997 09:54:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA25182 for ; Fri, 30 May 1997 09:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 789 invoked by uid 1000); 30 May 1997 16:37:10 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 09:37:10 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Fdisk Special Feature We CAN do Without Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I call it ``Teach'em To Be Careful'' (TTTBC): This feature makes sure you look and look again and your screen before you press ENTER. It also teaches you the value of fast, reliable and up to date backup. How does it work? So simple you do not have to learn it at all! It does it all by itself? How do you evaluate/activate this feature? Simply type ``fdisk some nonsense'' Fdisk will promptly wipe out your boot disk partitioning table. Just to make sure you stay alert, it will not tell you. How will you find out? Oh, when you boot your system next. It wouldn't! This feature is actually documented! It says clearly in the man page that if you do not specify what drive to partition, it will partition your boot drive. Now, if you want to make SURE you activate this feature, do: fdisk -f some_file_that_has_partitioning_data nonsense This will do it for sure. Every time. I know. I tried. Happy Re-installing! Simon