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To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags
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In message <alpine.GSO.1.10.1110071341430.882@multics.mit.edu>, Benjamin Kaduk 
writes:

>Now, an ordinary user who is 
>doing this for the first time might ask, "why do I need to do something 
>with 'debugflags' in order to make a USB stick? 

Which is the exactly right question to ask.

The procedure documented is clearly flawed.

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