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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Disklabel help needed Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 12:13:00 GMT Message-ID: <C3KKLq.1vH@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <1993Mar5.020610.29203@tfs.com> <C3Gp2w.7D4@sugar.neosoft.com> <C3J9FL.4vJ@BitBlocks.com> Lines: 17 In article <C3J9FL.4vJ@BitBlocks.com> bvs@BitBlocks.com (Bakul Shah) writes: > peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > > OK, folks, THIS is something that *needs* to be fixed, and that *can* be > > easily fixed at the application level... I hope. > This can't be fixed at the application level but I wouldn't worry > about it. I'm not worried about it, but why can't you simply define a small boot partition at the beginning of the disk? That would be an application level fix, and it would provide a better (more secure) hook to hang programs that muck with the FS and boot on. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.