From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 8 15:20:52 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 DA6A416A4BF for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfmm.org (walter.dfmm.org [209.151.233.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F59243F75 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:20:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-current@dfmm.org) Received: (qmail 25981 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Sep 2003 22:20:51 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Sep 2003 22:20:51 -0000 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:20:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Stone X-X-Sender: jason@walter To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030908221037.GA25200@wombat.localnet> Message-ID: <20030908151847.N55021@walter> References: <20030908203049.5FF375D04@ptavv.es.net> <20030908143810.V55021@walter> <20030908221037.GA25200@wombat.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied? 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: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:20:53 -0000 -----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-----