Can't change partition table anymore

[Dimitry Andric]

On 2005-04-04 at 16:34:33 Andrey Chernov wrote:

> In that situation any normal man drops FreeBSD CD in the trashcan and
> install Linux which don't have such aggressive illogical "protection".

Please note that Linux also complains, and even forces you to reboot,
when you rewrite partition tables on disks that are in use, i.e.:

  $ sudo fdisk /dev/hda
  [...shuffle around some partitions...]
  Command (m for help): w
  The partition table has been altered!

  Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

  WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
  The kernel still uses the old table.
  The new table will be used at the next reboot.
  Syncing disks.
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