UNIX admin wrote:
I am the developer who did the work for this feature.
We originally had
a force flag planned for all the utilities that were
modified to enable
in use checking. However, the force flag was an area
of much debate and
in the end we removed it. We recognize this is a
potential issue for
experienced sysadmins. My suggestion, file an RFE and
if enough people
feel this is an issue then we can revisit this
decision.
I definitely second enabling the admin to do what he needs to do. Simply bind
the override functionality to -e, because that's the expert mode.
That's certainly an interesting option on how to handle this. I hadn't
thought of -e but that makes some sense for this type of functionality.
And if I know about the expert mode, that implies that I know what I'm doing. So I want all and any obscure
functionality available to me when I run `format -e`. No trying to be "smart", no
"intelligence", just give us a "Voodoo-hoodoo what-you-don't-dare-do-people"
functionality with -e.
It is already noted in the man pages that the expert mode is to be used with
caution and only if one knows what one is doing.
Good point.
sarah
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