From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 17 22: 3:27 2003 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 5B5F737B401 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:03:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6998443F3F for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 22:03:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1I63N6E069841; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 06:03:23 GMT (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1I63MOx098312; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 07:03:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: Joerg Wunsch , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems creating and writing to disk slices From: phk@phk.freebsd.dk In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:36:44 PST." <3E518E2C.9080103@pantherdragon.org> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 07:03:22 +0100 Message-ID: <98311.1045548202@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3E518E2C.9080103@pantherdragon.org>, Darren Pilgrim writes: >I can understand the usefulness of preventing modifications applying to >mounted partitions, and I can see the logic in unliaterally preventing >them, but preventing modifying slice table and disk label entries for >unmounted portions of the disk gets more in the way than helps. You should be able to modify any non-open partition/slice provided you don't try to make them overlap an open one. You have to use the right options to the right programs on the right devices though. -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message