Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:47:03 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't change partition table anymore Message-ID: <1729.1112622423@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:47:21 BST." <1112618841.71324.23.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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In message <1112618841.71324.23.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>, Gavin Atkinson writes: >On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 07:28 +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: >> BTW, the trick with kern.geom.debugflags=16 works and I put it permanently >> in my sysctl.conf. Could you please make it ON by default or make a >> warning at least? > >I actually agree with this. It's so frustrating to not be able to do >what you want to do as root. I tend to belive in sensible safety features. Forcing people who do potentially dangerous acts to release the safety-catch mechanism first doesn't strike me as a bad idea. Only the most orthodox darwinists argue that guns should be sold armed and loaded from curb-side, child-height baskets. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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