It's still the same on some Linux distros at least. I wiped a Slackware install last year carelessly attempting to fdisk an external drive. I caught it a few mo

It's still the same on some Linux distros at least. I wiped a Slackware install last year carelessly attempting to fdisk an external drive. I caught it a few moments in, but it took a bit of doing to get the data back and I had to re-install.