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Date:      Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:20:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jason Stone <freebsd-current@dfmm.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?
Message-ID:  <20030908151847.N55021@walter>
In-Reply-To: <20030908221037.GA25200@wombat.localnet>
References:  <20030908203049.5FF375D04@ptavv.es.net> <20030908143810.V55021@walter> <20030908221037.GA25200@wombat.localnet>

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> There was, at one point, talk of adding some sort of
> "geom.dont_blame_phk_when_you_shoot_your_ankle_off" sysctl to permit
> this type of access when the user was absolutely sure they knew exactly
> what kind of dangerous and potentially corrupting thing they were doing
> and wanted to do it anyway, but I'm not sure it got anywhere.

I would be very much in favor of such a sysctl.

For my particular issue, though, accessing the bios settings might be a
viable alternative - is there any way to do so under freebsd?


 -Jason

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 Freud himself was a bit of a cold fish, and one cannot avoid the suspicion
 that he was insufficiently fondled when he was an infant.
	-- Ashley Montagu
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