Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive

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From: dennis
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:06

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"caver1" <caver@inthemud.com> wrote in message 
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>
> And how are you going to use the whole disk and not destroy the data 
> already
> on there? This has been a fact since the DOS DAYS.

But why does Ubuntu put out exactly the same warning when it isn't going to 
destroy any data?

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