El día Monday, March 04, 2013 a las 01:12:41PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette
escribió:
> I'm thinking: If it is worth putting a warning into the man page,
> perhaps it is worth putting a warning into the code itself, to
> protect the unwary.
>
> Anybody here ever used Clonezilla? A nice useful tool.
>
> When Clonezilla runs, and when it is just about to overwrite a target
> drive, it first asks you explicitly "Do you really want to proceed (Y/n)?"
>
> After you respond "Y" it asks you again, one more time, the same question.
>
> I for one have never felt put upon by these safety catches. I know they
> are there for my own protection. ...
In the old days of UNIX V7 when newfs(8) was still mkfs(8), there was
also a last and final question "Last chance before scribbling on disk."
to answer. And even after you hit ENTER to confirm, there was an
internal wait of some 5 secs to let you interrupt with Ctrl-C in case
of error. Just remembering those days :-)
matthias
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