GPT question

Tim Darby t+dfbsd at timdarby.net
Sat May 5 19:02:55 PDT 2012


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Shouldn't gpt at a minimum check to see if a device is mounted before
creating or destroying a table?  I just lost a full 2TB drive's worth of
data (backed up, fortunately) because I fat fingered the device name.  Why
would it ever be a good idea to allow this on a mounted device?


Tim

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