Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 07:52:10 -0700 From: Janet Sullivan <ciscogeek@bgp4.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problems with sysinstall Message-ID: <3FA3C89A.8070802@bgp4.net> In-Reply-To: <20031101133529.GA30137@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> References: <3F9F299C.8050504@ciam.ru> <20031029090121.U37386@carver.gumbysoft.com> <3F9FF8DD.7040100@ciam.ru> <20031029173150.Q39476@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20031101133529.GA30137@gattaca.yadt.co.uk>
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>>>Well, I understand it for slices. But why I can't create new partition >>>in exist slice and newfs it? It was OK in -stable. >> >>yes, this is a change to -current. It is for your own safety. > > My own safety? I can down the system in a million ways, yet can't do > what I actually want? A major reason I got fed up with Windows (other > than it not working right) was it's insistance of knowing what was best > for me. I hope FreeBSD doesn't fall down the same path. > > Or at least have a kernel option FOOT_SHOOTING, or something, that will > disable all the helpful code protection people from themselves. I agree, there should at least be some easy way to turn this behavior off. Maybe a foot.shoot sysctl of some kind. ;-)
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