Comment on The early Unix history of chown() being restricted to rootparentComments−mixmastamyk10moRunning scandisk and chkdsk was also a thing for decades. Luckily the lost sectors were often in unimportant files. But definitely a gamble.The bulk of the safety came from the redundancy of copying the file across machines, not filesystem protections.
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Running scandisk and chkdsk was also a thing for decades. Luckily the lost sectors were often in unimportant files. But definitely a gamble.
The bulk of the safety came from the redundancy of copying the file across machines, not filesystem protections.