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Date:      Mon, 4 Apr 2005 06:09:24 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't change partition table anymore
Message-ID:  <20050404020924.GA48010@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200504041107.42147.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <20050403232027.GA42574@nagual.pp.ru> <20050403233852.GA45951@nagual.pp.ru> <200504041107.42147.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:07:36AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > crw-r-----  1 root  operator    8,  66 Apr  4 03:33 /dev/ad0
>=20
> If you have part of that device open GEOM won't let you touch the MBR..
> You can turn the foot-shooting prevention off by doing..
>=20
> sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=3D16
>=20
> Make sure you set it back to 0 after you're done.

Thanx, I'll try, but why fdisk/sysinstall don't do that automatically for=
=20
me as it was before for many years?

F.e. I can't even change active boot partition. What is foot-shooting=20
prevention in that case? I see nothing but stupidity.

--=20
http://ache.pp.ru/

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