re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

[Jason Stone]

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> There was, at one point, talk of adding some sort of
> "geom.dont_blame_phk_when_you_shoot_your_ankle_off" sysctl to permit
> this type of access when the user was absolutely sure they knew exactly
> what kind of dangerous and potentially corrupting thing they were doing
> and wanted to do it anyway, but I'm not sure it got anywhere.

I would be very much in favor of such a sysctl.

For my particular issue, though, accessing the bios settings might be a
viable alternative - is there any way to do so under freebsd?


 -Jason

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