fdisk on mounted disks ?

chris at i13i.com chris at i13i.com
Mon Jan 16 17:17:29 PST 2006


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
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