Can't change partition table anymore

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Mon Apr 4 08:27:31 PDT 2005


Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <1112618841.71324.23.camel at buffy.york.ac.uk>, Gavin Atkinson writes:
> 
>>On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 07:28 +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>>
>>>BTW, the trick with kern.geom.debugflags=16 works and I put it permanently 
>>>in my sysctl.conf. Could you please make it ON by default or make a 
>>>warning at least?
>>
>>I actually agree with this.  It's so frustrating to not be able to do
>>what you want to do as root.
> 
> 
> I tend to belive in sensible safety features.  Forcing people who
> do potentially dangerous acts to release the safety-catch mechanism
> first doesn't strike me as a bad idea.
> 
> Only the most orthodox darwinists argue that guns should be sold
> armed and loaded from curb-side, child-height baskets.
> 

It would likely be less frustrating if there was an obvious mesage
printed to the console that told the root user how to remove the safety
mechanism.

Scott


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