Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 11:50:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/29119: menu of fdisk editor in 4.3R does not list 'W'rite Message-ID: <200108051850.f75Io2N55295@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/29119; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: wilko@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/29119: menu of fdisk editor in 4.3R does not list 'W'rite Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 20:34:20 +0200 As Dima Dorfman wrote: > wilko@freebsd.org writes: > > >Description: > > > > The FDISK Partition Editor of sysinstall does not display that > > it also supports 'W' for a forced write of the fdisk table. > > But it does.. And this is really practical in some circumstances > > (like installing 2x FreeBSD on the same disk; which needs > > fooling sysinstall by changing partition types) > > It does, but only when it isn't running as init. Joerg (cc'd) wrote > that part of the code, so maybe he can tell us why that is. I don't think i wrote that part of the code, i only documented some other menu items recently. I think using the `w' item in ``running as init'' mode is discouraged, thus it is not mentioned. When you try it, you get a warning later. I believe Jordan wrote that part, no idea what kind of bad things could happen that make it a `discouraged' item. Anyway, the menu deliberately jumps through some hoops to only document the `w' key in !running_as_init mode. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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