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Originally Posted by Brad The only potentially risky thing is if you have spaces or "special" characters in the drive name. There was the infamous iTunes 2.0 installer bug about twenty years ago where an Apple engineer failed to handle spaces in drive names correctly, and it could result in wiping your whole system. Whoops! I haven't seen anything like that in a very long time, but I still stick to one-word drive names just to be safe.

Yeah, but the OS is far more locked down these days anyways. Even an installer (which has root) can't really mess up the OS much.

That said, yes, escaping mistakes continue to be just as easy to make as they were in 2001, because apparently, programmers like pain (and for users to feel it).