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From: schur@isi.edu (Sean Schur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Locking Out Format for Hard Drive Partitions
Message-ID: <15186@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 3 Oct 90 06:50:42 GMT
Reply-To: schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur)
Organization: USC-Information Sciences Institute
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I am running a large amiga lab at a private arts college in L.A.
The lab is basically an animation lab for non-computer people.
We have a problem with students picking an icon for a hard drive
partition (instead of their floppy) and accidentally formating the
hard drive then with the format menu command.

Does anyone know of any way to protect a hard drive partition from
accidentally being formatted in this way? The way we are doing it at
this time is to make an icon (with iconx) that calls a script to start
format on drive df0:. But, there has got to be a real way do to this.
For instance, it would be great if the Lock command could lock out
format instead of entirely locking out writing to a partition.

Any other suggestions. 

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