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Date:      Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:02:31 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags
Message-ID:  <80750.1318010551@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:42:01 -0400." <alpine.GSO.1.10.1110071341430.882@multics.mit.edu>

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In message <alpine.GSO.1.10.1110071341430.882@multics.mit.edu>, Benjamin Kaduk 
writes:

>Now, an ordinary user who is 
>doing this for the first time might ask, "why do I need to do something 
>with 'debugflags' in order to make a USB stick? 

Which is the exactly right question to ask.

The procedure documented is clearly flawed.

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