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From: rwberry@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert W Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Corrupting DOS partition
Message-ID: <6703@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 9 Oct 89 01:13:10 GMT
References: <5033@ogccse.ogc.edu>
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From article <5033@ogccse.ogc.edu>, by lyle@ogccse.ogc.edu (Lyle Cool):
> 
> ...  User built boot image to HD0 and trashed DOS partition ...
>

     The first thing I do when I set up Minix on a hard disk is get rid
of any /dev/hd?'s that Minix has no business writing to.  The only
problem with this can come when Minix has a legitimate reason to look at
that partition (i.e. DOSREAD, et al) so I just built a small
shell-script to create the necessary device and then remove it
immediately afterwards.

     However, there's little you can do if some out-of-control program
trashes your partition table.  This happened to me when I was trying to
optimize FS.  Ouch, good thing I believe in _REGULAR_ backups.

> 
> Lyle Cool (lyle@cse.ogc.edu)

Hope this helps, (tm)

Bob

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