Re: unclear cp semantics nuked non-working drive?

[janneke]

Andrew Clausen <address@hidden> writes:

> Ouch!

I wasn't happy, and I'll make more backups in the future.  However, my
most important stuff is safely backed-up on the internet :-)

>       (parted) select /dev/hdb
>       (parted) cp 1 /dev/hda 1

Ok.  It makes more sense to me now.  Apparently, I was in too much
hurry.  Coming from [cfp]disk I wasn't prepared to find something like
``select'', maybe also because parted says: ``/dev/hda'' when started
without arguments.

> Well, if you say /dev/hdb, or whatever, you are explicitly telling
> it to write to another disk...

I understand.  Of course, I didn't imagine writing to other disks
would be an option...


> So, you think we should change it to:
> 
>       cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-MINOR TO-MINOR

I definately like this best.  If you have ``select''ed hda to do
partitioning, you'd probably want to copy *to* hda (or at least,
you're prepared to destroy hda :-)

Greetings,
Jan.

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