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Date:      Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:14:15 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied? 
Message-ID:  <5744.1063120455@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Sep 2003 13:30:49 PDT." <20030908203049.5FF375D04@ptavv.es.net> 

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In message <20030908203049.5FF375D04@ptavv.es.net>, "Kevin Oberman" writes:

>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.)

If this is the case it is a bug in fdisk(8).

The only restriction GEOM introduces is that you cannot change an
_open_ device.  Anything else is a bug.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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