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Bungie did that with Myth 2: https://youtu.be/-p3a8eGORKY?t=513 https://youtu.be/-p3a8eGORKY?t=513

by minikites 7y ago

gpderetta 7y ago
Valve did it recently with Steam on linux!
- jtlienwis 7y ago
  There was once was an operating systems that allowed you to format your entire hard drive when you only intended to format a floppy disk, if you typed format c: instead of format a:. This was called Microsoft Dos 2.x.
  - ztjio 7y ago
    So it did exactly what you requested it to do, no surprises at all. Got it.
    - rmtech 7y ago
      Yeah but there should be a SERIOUS warning preventing that
  - Symbiote 7y ago
    mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 That's not that much different from a plausible error on Linux, with a USB drive and a hard drive. (At least, the man page for my mkfs.vfat doesn't include any options suggesting it protects against formatting already-formatted or mounted filesystems.)
    - Dylan16807 7y ago
      Yikes, it sure doesn't. For comparison, mkfs.ext2 asks before proceeding if there's already a filesystem, and outright exits if it's mounted.
      - Symbiote 7y ago
        Fair enough -- I was assuming based on the lack of documented "force" options that other mkfs' (mkfs.ext4 etc) have.
    - gpm 7y ago
      dd if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/wrong_disk Killed a windows install (which had the first partition on the disk) only a year ago with that one.
      - ryall 6y ago
        I lost about 5 hours work by getting the order of input/output parameters wrong in a tar command. No warnings, nothing. "Yes by all means, use a nonexistent file as input to overwrite an existing file That doesn't even have a .tar extension. That's exactly what I wanted"
pault 7y ago
Myth was one of my favorite games as a teenager. The dark fantasy atmosphere really captured my imagination, and I still have a little giggle when I think about exploding dwarves. :D
- dylan604 7y ago
  It was their laugh when things blew up, and their sarcasm that I enjoyed. "Yeah Yeah, over there" "Now what?"

Bungie did that with Myth 2: https://youtu.be/-p3a8eGORKY?t=513 https://youtu.be/-p3a8eGORKY?t=513

gpderetta 7y ago

Valve did it recently with Steam on linux!

jtlienwis 7y ago
There was once was an operating systems that allowed you to format your entire hard drive when you only intended to format a floppy disk, if you typed format c: instead of format a:. This was called Microsoft Dos 2.x.
- ztjio 7y ago
  So it did exactly what you requested it to do, no surprises at all. Got it.
  - rmtech 7y ago
    Yeah but there should be a SERIOUS warning preventing that
- Symbiote 7y ago
  mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 That's not that much different from a plausible error on Linux, with a USB drive and a hard drive. (At least, the man page for my mkfs.vfat doesn't include any options suggesting it protects against formatting already-formatted or mounted filesystems.)
  - Dylan16807 7y ago
    Yikes, it sure doesn't. For comparison, mkfs.ext2 asks before proceeding if there's already a filesystem, and outright exits if it's mounted.
    - Symbiote 7y ago
      Fair enough -- I was assuming based on the lack of documented "force" options that other mkfs' (mkfs.ext4 etc) have.
  - gpm 7y ago
    dd if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/wrong_disk Killed a windows install (which had the first partition on the disk) only a year ago with that one.
    - ryall 6y ago
      I lost about 5 hours work by getting the order of input/output parameters wrong in a tar command. No warnings, nothing. "Yes by all means, use a nonexistent file as input to overwrite an existing file That doesn't even have a .tar extension. That's exactly what I wanted"

pault 7y ago

Myth was one of my favorite games as a teenager. The dark fantasy atmosphere really captured my imagination, and I still have a little giggle when I think about exploding dwarves. :D

dylan604 7y ago
It was their laugh when things blew up, and their sarcasm that I enjoyed. "Yeah Yeah, over there" "Now what?"