Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 02:30:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/29119: menu of fdisk editor in 4.3R does not list 'W'rite Message-ID: <200107290930.f6T9U1d15613@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/29119; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: wilko@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, joerg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/29119: menu of fdisk editor in 4.3R does not list 'W'rite Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 02:29:14 -0700 wilko@freebsd.org writes: > >Description: > > The FDISK Partition Editor of sysinstall does not display that > it also supports 'W' for a forced write of the fdisk table. > But it does.. And this is really practical in some circumstances > (like installing 2x FreeBSD on the same disk; which needs > fooling sysinstall by changing partition types) It does, but only when it isn't running as init. Joerg (cc'd) wrote that part of the code, so maybe he can tell us why that is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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