From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: boot.img Fix
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:34:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090714173425.GA10523@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090712093001.dtfy4tubwo08408s-cebfxv@webmail.spamcop.net>
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 09:30:01AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Quoting Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>:
>
>> I agree GRUB should be very careful not to destroy potentially valuable
>> data. However, that's not to say FAT install is important. Typically
>> our install doesn't collide or interfere with any filesystem, it's only
>> a few corner cases that do, and IMO we should try to discourage those.
>>
>> But of course, destroying someone's filesystem is not the right way to
>> discourage something :-)
>
> I think installing to the first (or any) sector of a filesystem not
> known specifically to allow that should at least require --force.
Agreed.
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-14 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-07 8:08 boot.img Fix Yves BLUSSEAU
2009-07-07 22:17 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-07-08 5:06 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-07-08 8:13 ` Yves BLUSSEAU
2009-07-08 23:09 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-07-10 17:15 ` Robert Millan
2009-07-12 13:30 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-07-14 17:34 ` Robert Millan [this message]
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