Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 04:23:31 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> Cc: phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't change partition table anymore Message-ID: <20050404002331.GA46543@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <1112627806.695.6.camel@dirk.no.domain> References: <20050403232027.GA42574@nagual.pp.ru> <20050403234252.GA46022@nagual.pp.ru> <1112627806.695.6.camel@dirk.no.domain>
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On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:16:46AM -0500, Sam Lawrance wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 03:42 +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:38:53AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:20:27AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > > > > Recent -current says "Operation not permitted" for both fdisk and > > > > sysinstall partition changes (under su root). Something wrong happens with > > > > DIOCSMBR. Plain ATA disk ad0. Any ideas? > > > > > > When I comment out this two lines in geom_mbr.c, it works again as before: > > > //if (!(fflag & FWRITE)) > > > // return (EPERM); > > > It means something is wrong with FWRITE flag settings. Device itself is > > > writeable: > > > crw-r----- 1 root operator 8, 66 Apr 4 03:33 /dev/ad0 > > > > BTW, only fdisk works after that change, sysinstall continue to say > > ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0! > > I suspect more FWRITEs hidden somewhere... > > Any part of ad0 mounted rw? I think you can't do it when that's the > case. ad0s1a mounted to / (no additional ad0* mounts) I do it always without any problems in the past. When I boot to single user and try, the picture remains exact the same (with / mounted readonly). -- http://ache.pp.ru/
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