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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lock fails on DH0: with A2090A
Message-ID: <1190@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 89 08:06:02 GMT
References: <6645@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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From article <6645@louie.udel.EDU>, by Ata@radc-multics.arpa (John G. Ata):
> The lock command only works on deviced format with FFS.  It will not
> work on OFS type partitions.

Yes, too true. Thanks to the million or so (or 5 or 6 at least :-)
people that pointed this out to me.

I guess it pays to re-RTFM every now and then.

Since my original intent was to try and write protect my boot partition
to try and add a little more infection protection, let me rephrase teh
question:

Would it be possible to write a program to "lock" an OFS partition? 
And does someone want to write it? 
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