Bug#217503: Evil autopartkit should _NEVER_ _NEVER_ try to overwrite an unknown partition table

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:14:02AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Well, friday, it proposed me partitioner, which was broken, and did
> refuse to work, and autopartkit, which ate my disk. Nowhere did it fall
> back to using a good old (newbie-hostile) tool, like parted or
> amiga-fdisk. And i don't know if it is really newbie friendly to have
> debian-installer eat the preinstalled system, i doubt newbies know of to
> restaure their partition table by hand, and they may be unluck and have
> the important data on the first partition that was wiped out in the
> process.
> 
> But then, nobody really cares about that,

I believe one of the rules of the Hippocratic Oath is:
"Do No Harm."

It's as valid for programmers as for surgeons.

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