From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jan 12 2:40:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B24437B402 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 02:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0CAe3Z02156; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 02:40:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 02:40:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101121040.f0CAe3Z02156@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Bruce Evans Subject: Re: bin/24271: dumpon should check its argument more Reply-To: Bruce Evans Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/24271; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Evans To: sam@inf.enst.fr Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/24271: dumpon should check its argument more Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:35:52 +1100 (EST) On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 sam@inf.enst.fr wrote: > >Description: > dumpon should check that the argument is not a disk slice, or should > require a flag (-f?) in this case. It would prevent bad crashes :/ This is a feature. dumpon (like swapon and newfs) should work on any disk device, including the whole disk. It currently only works on disk devices whose containing slice is labeled, so it can only be misused to clobber BSD slices and not OtherOS slices (this is a bug :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message