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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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: See https://private.idealab.com/public/jason/jason.gpg iD8DBQE/XQDDswXMWWtptckRAkXUAKCrCMfzxsovAnx+JwSvN/jAYKB2QgCdHC/H 070NTy87RnhJ2sL22NwcpiM= =V++P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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