re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20030908203049.5FF375D04 at 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.

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