From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 16 18:27:28 2002 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 DF2FB37B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:27:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao03.cox.net (lakemtao03.cox.net [68.1.17.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 362F243EB2 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:27:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ataraxia@cox.net) Received: from arkadia.nv.cox.net ([68.98.181.29]) by lakemtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20021217022728.ZZOZ26808.lakemtao03.cox.net@arkadia.nv.cox.net> for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:27:28 -0500 Received: by arkadia.nv.cox.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6F8CBB8BD; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:27:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:27:26 -0500 From: Ray Kohler To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: writing to mbr under GEOM Message-ID: <20021217022726.GA13504@arkadia.nv.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What's the status of the issue where devices with open partitions can't have their boot sectors written to? I know phk@ was working on it a while back but it's something I'd like to see fixed soon, maybe before release? ~ 9:14PM % sudo fdisk -B ad0 fdisk: can't open device /dev/ad0 fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad0: Operation not permitted zsh: 13660 exit 1 sudo fdisk -B ad0 ~ 9:25PM % sudo fdisk -i ad0 fdisk: can't open device /dev/ad0 fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad0: Operation not permitted zsh: 13661 exit 1 sudo fdisk -i ad0 -- Ray Kohler When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. -- Harry Truman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message