On Monday 03 November 2008 10:31:59 Robert McGwier wrote:
> with the rest which I emphasize again.  If you get the wrong XXXX for
> the device,  you can wipe out your hard drive.  Most people will have
> their hard drive as /dev/sda and on my computer it seems the device
> is, like Matt's computer, to be /dev/sdb.

Surely the kernel would prevent you writing to a disk that is opened by it for 
the FS. (It does in FreeBSD anyway)

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