Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > On Wed 28 May, Malcolm V bloviated thus: > >>Interesting that mkfs.ext3 provides no warning that you are about to >>wipe everything off that partition. mkreiserfs does though, which is a >>nice touch. > > Sounds like a bug. Report it and it'll be fixed.
Better still download the source code and simply add a message at the start that outputs a warning to the screen. Then create a patch and send it in to the maintainer suggesting that it be added. Prob is that perhaps some scripts that call up mkfs may not expect it to be interactive and presume that it just does its job when called. Hence adding such a message might break other scripts that depend on it. Either way the maintainer will have an opinion on that :-) Mike -- Mike Lake Uni of Technol., Sydney UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER ======================================================================== This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. ======================================================================== -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
