From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 22:54:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FC6E37B402 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 22:53:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 75048 invoked by uid 100); 20 Jan 2001 06:53:59 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14953.13831.143395.682148@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 00:53:59 -0600 (CST) To: Stephan Beal Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting rid of FreeBSD partitions? In-Reply-To: <34042301@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stephan Beal types: > It wasn't my intention to blame FreeBSD, or start a flame war (yes, I see= > how=20 > it came across that way, and I appologize). it turns out that the problem= > =20 > seems to be more a fault of a missing (visibly, anyway) option in fdisk. = > I=20 > would suggest to any BSD installation maintainers that they make the Writ= > e=20 > option visible in the fdisk setup. There was some discussion of this recently on either -current or cvs-all. It's not shown because it's dangerous, and not normally needed. I believe they've decided to document it in the help text, but still not show it in the menu. Thus, someone like you who really needed it should find it, but the casual user who doesn't won't be tempted to try to "just to see what it does." http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message