a bug in the wetware perhaps.. but didn't know the correct address (not in man/info etc) I was not drinking enough coffee or getting enough sleep last night, when I decided to make a boot disk and upgrade my system. So, to copy the image onto the floppy, I used the familiar command dd if=./boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k except, I typed -this-: dd if=./boot.img of=/dev/hda uhh, yes. Now, what I was thinking (& I've had a bit of time to think, as my drive e2fsck'd and fdisk'd), I imagine that copying things over the MBR on your hd is probably not a very common occurrence. I realise I'm coming at this from a relative newbie perspective, but how reasonable would it be to just put a msg in there saying "Are you SURE you want to overwrite your hda mbr?" - with perhaps a -q option for scripting purposes (if necessary). Just a thought, I imagine I'm not the only person who's shot themselves in the foot over this one.. Regards Simon ps. looking in `info dd` and the option "swap" is mistyped "swab".. although probably a useful command to have around (particularly for cleaning up messes), I suspect this is a typo :) _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
