Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:14:15 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied? Message-ID: <5744.1063120455@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Sep 2003 13:30:49 PDT." <20030908203049.5FF375D04@ptavv.es.net>
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In message <20030908203049.5FF375D04@ptavv.es.net>, "Kevin Oberman" writes: >In any case, since GEOM was added you can no longer slice or label an >active device. As a result, the only way I know of to change slices or >labels on V5 is to boot off of CD or floppy Fixit disks or install >disks. (I just had to do this on my laptop this morning.) If this is the case it is a bug in fdisk(8). The only restriction GEOM introduces is that you cannot change an _open_ device. Anything else is a bug. -- 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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