From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jul 29 2:50: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D4837B403 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 02:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6T9o3N19040; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 02:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 02:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200107290950.f6T9o3N19040@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: bin/29119: menu of fdisk editor in 4.3R does not list 'W'rite Reply-To: Wilko Bulte Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/29119; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Wilko Bulte To: Dima Dorfman Cc: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, joerg@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/29119: menu of fdisk editor in 4.3R does not list 'W'rite Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 11:48:22 +0200 On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:29:14AM -0700, 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. OK, my observation was when running from CD. -- | / 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