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From: new@udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: Can I Protect My Hard Drive From Myself?
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Date: 4 Jan 90 22:39:00 GMT
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In article <453602AV79LT01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) writes:
>A simple way to prevent a hard disk partition from being trashed is to
>use the 'lock' command (I believe it's a 1.3 command).
>
>I assume it would prevent any accidental formats.

Sorry, dude.  This does not seem to cut it.  I tried this when I first got
my hard drive and was dismayed that format merrily trashed the couple of
files I had on the hard disk.  I think the lock command talks to the file
system and the format command talks to the trackdisk.device (or whatever is
under the filesystem).  DON'T USE THE LOCK COMMAND TO SECURE FROM FORMATTING!
		-- Darren