From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 05:00:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3639116A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:00:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from franky.speednet.com.au (franky.speednet.com.au [203.57.65.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 973D643F85 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:00:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (udsl-3-062.QLD.dft.com.au [202.168.108.62])h9UD0Jx6000118; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 00:00:20 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242])h9UD0FK5068663; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:00:16 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:00:13 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: andyf@hewey.af.speednet.com.au To: Sergey Matveychuk In-Reply-To: <3FA0EF65.5080008@ciam.ru> Message-ID: <20031030224354.S61846@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> References: <3F9F299C.8050504@ciam.ru> <20031029090121.U37386@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20031029173150.Q39476@carver.gumbysoft.com> <3FA0EF65.5080008@ciam.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:00:36 -0000 Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > Richard Nyberg wrote: > >Doug White wrote: > > > yes, this is a change to -current. It is for your own safety. > > > > I think this change in current is for the worse. I don't see why > > I can't manage slices and partitions from my regular OS, but have > > to boot up a CD to do the job. It's not even safer; I am perfectly > > capable of destroying my disk layout from the CD too. > > Agree. Why I can't change active slice? Or add a partition? Or repair my > master boot record? > It's absolutely safe. Its a major PITA and POLA violation IMHO. The super-user should be able to foot-shoot whatever she wants to. For example, you setup a production box with a 60 gig disk. You allocate 40 gig initially, leaving 20 gig as "reserve". Time passes. You now need that extra 20 gig but can not down the server. You are stuffed. -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/