schur@isi.edu (Sean Schur) (10/03/90)
I am running a large amiga lab at a private arts college in L.A. The lab is basically an animation lab for non-computer people. We have a problem with students picking an icon for a hard drive partition (instead of their floppy) and accidentally formating the hard drive then with the format menu command. Does anyone know of any way to protect a hard drive partition from accidentally being formatted in this way? The way we are doing it at this time is to make an icon (with iconx) that calls a script to start format on drive df0:. But, there has got to be a real way do to this. For instance, it would be great if the Lock command could lock out format instead of entirely locking out writing to a partition. Any other suggestions. ============================================================================== Sean Schur USENET: schur@isi.edu Compuserve: 70731,1102 Plink: OSS259 ==============================================================================
dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell) (10/04/90)
In article <15186@venera.isi.edu> schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur) writes: | | ... about students accidentally Formating their hard drives ... | I can't think of anything off the top of my head (other than Lock) that would keep someone from formatting a selected disk. However, you could snapshot the hard disk icons so that they are on the left side of the screen, just under the title bar, say. This would at least keep the hard disk icons segregated from the floppy disk icons, thus making them less of a target. Hope this helps [tm]. --dds |Sean Schur | |USENET: schur@isi.edu Dale D. Snell dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM 74756.666@compuserve.COM "Life *is* pain, Highness! Anyone who says otherwise is selling something." -- The Dread Pirate Roberts