Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 12:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/29119: menu of fdisk editor in 4.3R does not list 'W'rite Message-ID: <200108051940.f75Je2D72681@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/29119; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, 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 21:35:46 +0200 On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 08:34:20PM +0200, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > 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. To be honest I would not care if only the installer allowed multiple FreeBSD instances each in it's own fdisk partition. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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