From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 20:43:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7319316A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 20:43:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tensor.xs4all.nl (tensor.xs4all.nl [194.109.160.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA4FF43D2D for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 20:43:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dimitry@andric.com) Received: from kilgore.dim (kilgore.dim [192.168.0.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tensor.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA4E2284E; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:43:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:42:50 +0200 From: Dimitry Andric X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <37235846.20050407224250@andric.com> To: Andrey Chernov In-Reply-To: <20050404143432.GA67223@nagual.pp.ru> References: <1112618841.71324.23.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <1729.1112622423@critter.freebsd.dk> <20050404143432.GA67223@nagual.pp.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="----------5DFE1209BEA2E0" cc: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't change partition table anymore X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 20:43:03 -0000 ------------5DFE1209BEA2E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2005-04-04 at 16:34:33 Andrey Chernov wrote: > In that situation any normal man drops FreeBSD CD in the trashcan and > install Linux which don't have such aggressive illogical "protection". Please note that Linux also complains, and even forces you to reboot, when you rewrite partition tables on disks that are in use, i.e.: $ sudo fdisk /dev/hda [...shuffle around some partitions...] Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or r= esource busy. The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at the next reboot. Syncing disks. ------------5DFE1209BEA2E0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCVZtKsF6jCi4glqMRAk9kAKCEdUQ+J17aszAMnNNn2J6Z9UNjAACghJC+ guBBYisibVv94OVxnoaGDkM= =/DJk -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ------------5DFE1209BEA2E0--