re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

Matthew N. Dodd mdodd at FreeBSD.ORG
Mon Sep 8 15:15:04 PDT 2003


On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 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.)

I still use my foot-shooting patch.

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