From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 1 06:52:13 2003 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 C42DD16A4CE for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 06:52:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from fed1mtao02.cox.net (fed1mtao02.cox.net [68.6.19.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB7FA43F93 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 06:52:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ciscogeek@bgp4.net) Received: from bgp4.net ([68.99.195.198]) by fed1mtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031101145212.FEIZ19225.fed1mtao02.cox.net@bgp4.net> for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 09:52:12 -0500 Message-ID: <3FA3C89A.8070802@bgp4.net> Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 07:52:10 -0700 From: Janet Sullivan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org References: <3F9F299C.8050504@ciam.ru> <20031029090121.U37386@carver.gumbysoft.com> <3F9FF8DD.7040100@ciam.ru> <20031029173150.Q39476@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20031101133529.GA30137@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20031101133529.GA30137@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: problems with sysinstall 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: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 14:52:13 -0000 >>>Well, I understand it for slices. But why I can't create new partition >>>in exist slice and newfs it? It was OK in -stable. >> >>yes, this is a change to -current. It is for your own safety. > > My own safety? I can down the system in a million ways, yet can't do > what I actually want? A major reason I got fed up with Windows (other > than it not working right) was it's insistance of knowing what was best > for me. I hope FreeBSD doesn't fall down the same path. > > Or at least have a kernel option FOOT_SHOOTING, or something, that will > disable all the helpful code protection people from themselves. I agree, there should at least be some easy way to turn this behavior off. Maybe a foot.shoot sysctl of some kind. ;-)