On Thursday 05 August 2004 14:16, John Richard Smith wrote: > Bryan Phinney wrote: > >On Thursday 05 August 2004 10:39 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>Bryan, > >>I've made a floppy version of dban, but tell me if I accidentally > >> left it in my A drive and booted up on it, it wouldn't atually > >> wipe my entire drive without asking me first would it ? > > > >As far as I know, it would not. The later versions of dban allow > > you to wipe just a single partition, rather than the entire drive. > > You would have to interact with the app after it detects the > > partitions and drives to tell it which one to wipe. > > > >However, I would recommend that you only insert and boot from that > > floppy when you KNOW you intend to wipe a partition or drive and > > obviously, you want to have a backup of all data before you do > > that. > > Oh for sure, > but you know how it is, the best laid plans of mice and men. > > John Therefore plan on it! -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux user #363264 http://counter.li.org
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