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From: lyle@ogccse.ogc.edu (Lyle Cool)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Corrupting DOS partition
Message-ID: <5033@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Date: 8 Oct 89 18:33:44 GMT
Reply-To: lyle@ogccse.UUCP (Lyle Cool)
Followup-To: comp.os.minix
Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR
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Last night I was making several boot disks with various hard disk drivers
when I typed the following line:
	build bootblok kernel mm fs init fsck /dev/hd0   instead of
	build bootblok kernel mm fs init fsck /dev/fd0

This one-letter-mistake basically trashed my hard disk, DOS partition and all.

It raises this issue: should Minix allow a fumble-fingered programmer
to corrupt another partition on the disk?

Lyle Cool (lyle@cse.ogc.edu)