From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 5 12:31:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11727 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 12:31:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from math.berkeley.edu (math.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.183.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11720 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 12:31:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@math.berkeley.edu) Received: (from dan@localhost) by math.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA01082; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 12:30:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 12:30:48 -0700 (PDT) From: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick) Message-Id: <199810051930.MAA01082@math.berkeley.edu> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition weirdness.. Cc: dan@math.berkeley.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >You are supposed to be able to turn off this protection with the > >"disklabel -W" command, though this never seems to work for me. > > It turns back on on close or thereabouts. This is easy to work around > by not closing (e.g., sleep 1000