On Lu, 26 nov 12, 23:51:32, Amit wrote: > > Now, for example, there have been cases where I accidentaly (as root), > do a dd and overwrite a portion of the drive I was analyzing/reading from.
Ok, I understand now. In my opinion such safety nets are dangerous, because they tend to encourage carelessness (not implying that you are careless though). This is also the reason I stopped using rm aliased to 'rm -i'. How about using the /dev/disk/by-* links when doing such dangerous operations? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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