max bianco wrote:
What about the
> user who hoses his system with fdisk by accident? Will he love Fedora
> for it?
A normal user running fdisk sees:
$ fdisk /dev/sda
You will not be able to write the partition table.
Command (m for help):
System-hosing seems to be ruled out.
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
To which i will answer, for the last time I promise, why let them use
it at all if they cannot use it for its intended purpose. Namely
partioning disks. There are other commands as well , i used fdisk as
an example not to change the focus of the topic but it is what it is,
it isn't up to me anyway.
/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda
is very useful - for example if you want to duplicate a system setup or
just be prepared to restore after a disk failure. And it's obviously
safer to run it as non-root instead of encouraging people to 'su -' even
for read access. The point still is that it is permissions that always
should control who can do what, not obscurity.
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