Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:39:17 -0600 (CST) From: chris@i13i.com To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk on mounted disks ? Message-ID: <50949.195.139.252.5.1137461957.squirrel@webmail.i13i.com> In-Reply-To: <200601171024.47138.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20060116144113.A13969@xorpc.icir.org> <200601171024.47138.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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You can umount any fs as long as it is not /usr or / boot into single user mode and then use fdisk. > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 09:11, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> So, does anyone know the trick to be used to modify >> the slices on a mounted disk ? Or do i have to boot >> from a different media ? > > man 4 geom > Set the kern.geom.debugflags sysctl to 0x10 > > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C >
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