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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:34:08 -0700
From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?
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On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:13:43PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > In any case, since GEOM was added you can no longer slice or label an
> > active device. As a result, the only way I know of to change slices or
> > labels on V5 is to boot off of CD or floppy Fixit disks or install
> > disks. (I just had to do this on my laptop this morning.)
> 
> I still use my foot-shooting patch.
> 

Any chance that this patch will be committed?  Or, 
has this patch been sent to the bikeshed?

-- 
Steve