Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:19:10 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org> To: Jason Stone <freebsd-current@dfmm.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied? Message-ID: <20030908161910.6d6fe231.dmp@bitfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <20030908143810.V55021@walter> References: <20030908203049.5FF375D04@ptavv.es.net> <20030908143810.V55021@walter>
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On 2003.09.08 14:54:37 -0700, Jason Stone <freebsd-current@dfmm.org> wrote: > > You have hit one of the main issues still to be resolved in GEOM. (I > > don't know that phk thinks it's a problem to be resolved or a > > feature to be documented.) > > > > In any case, since GEOM was added you can no longer slice or label > > an active device. > > Ah - is that to say that, in general, you can't mess with the disk's > MBR? You can get around the safety measure that prevents writes to active disk devices by turning on bit 4 of kern.geom.debugflags.
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