Well, we could always implement some sort of flag (maybe -F for Force?) to
bypass the new checks...

On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Scott Reynolds wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Oct 1997 James.Graham@Schwab.COM wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone else here feel as though a patch to newfs prevent
> > accidental overwriting of a non-UNIX-type filesystem would
> > be worthwhile?
> 
> Well, one adverse affect would be that I could no longer disklabel a ccd
> that wasn't partitioned.  That would be bad. :-/
> 
> --scott
> 
> 

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