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From: nor1675@dsacg2.UUCP (Michael Figg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Can I Protect My Hard Drive From Myself?
Summary: hide format
Message-ID: <842@dsacg2.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 89 18:37:42 GMT
References: <11117@venera.isi.edu>
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus
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In article <11117@venera.isi.edu>, schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur) writes:
> 
>I know that one solution would be to pre-format disks so that MRBackup wouldn't
> try to format my hard disk erroneously. Unfortunately, I have a lot of ANIM 

After doing somewhat the same thing (I did a format on dh0: instead of df0:) I  thought a good solution might be to hide the 'format' command under another
name and call it from a script or simple program (named 'format') that traps 
the device to be formatted, checks to see if it is one of your hard disk 
partitions, and either warns you or forbids you to format the undesired         partition.


I haven't tried this yet (but have made good backups!) and would welcome any
ideas on potential problems with this setup.


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