Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One advantage of the Mac OS prior to OS-X is that you can not > deliberately Reformat the Hard Disk which has your currently operating > system without starting up from the systems Disk or another Hard drive
% df -k / Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 61615 24297 31157 44% / % newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0: Permission denied And, if that isn't enough... # mount -F ufs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt # df -k /mnt Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/lofi/1 47897 9 43099 1% /mnt # newfs /dev/rlofi/1 newfs: /dev/rlofi/1 last mounted as /mnt newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rlofi/1: (y/n)? y /dev/lofi/1 is mounted, can't mkfs Even after 1) becoming superuser and 2) answering YES, it still wouldn't let me wreck the filesystem. Yes, if I had a mind to, I could destroy the filesystem, mounted or no. But there would CERTAINLY be no "accidental" about it. -- Brandon Hume - hume -> BOFH.Halifax.NS.Ca, http://WWW.BOFH.Halifax.NS.Ca/ -> Solaris Snob and general NOCMonkey
