Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Josef Karthauser writes: > >--7UIJfHqpdi+oBJdT >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 05:14:15PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-11 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 05:14:15PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "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 bo

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-09 Thread Michael Edenfield
* Ulrich Spoerlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030909 12:33]: > On Mon, 08.09.2003 at 18:10:38 -0400, Michael Edenfield wrote: > > e.g., if you have ad0s1a mounted as /, you cannot: > > > > * fdisk ad0 to create ad0s2 > > * disklabel ad0s2 to create ad0s2a > > * perform any data transfer with ad0 as the

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "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

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-08 Thread Darren Pilgrim
On 2003.09.08 14:54:37 -0700, Jason Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You have hit one of the main issues still to be resolved in GEOM. (I > > don't know that phk thinks it's a problem to be resolved or a > > feature to be documented.) > > > > In any case, since GEOM was added you can no longer

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-08 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Steve Kargl wrote: > Any chance that this patch will be committed? Or, has this patch been > sent to the bikeshed? There is some code that was a half-compromise: geom/geom_subr.c:g_access_rel() %%% /* If foot-shooting is enabled, any open on rank#1 is OK */ if

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-08 Thread Steve Kargl
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:13:43PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > 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 f

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:10:38PM -0400, Michael Edenfield wrote: > * Jason Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030908 17:54]: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > You have hit one of the main issues still to be resolved in GEOM. (I > > > don't know that phk thinks it's a p

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-08 Thread Jason Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > 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

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-08 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Michael Edenfield wrote: > 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 th

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-08 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
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

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-08 Thread Michael Edenfield
* Jason Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030908 17:54]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > You have hit one of the main issues still to be resolved in GEOM. (I > > don't know that phk thinks it's a problem to be resolved or a feature to > > be documented.) > > > > In any case, si

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-08 Thread Jason Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > You have hit one of the main issues still to be resolved in GEOM. (I > don't know that phk thinks it's a problem to be resolved or a feature to > be documented.) > > In any case, since GEOM was added you can no longer slice or label an > active devi

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-08 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 21:08:57 +0100 > From: Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I'm trying to repartition the driv

re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-08 Thread Josef Karthauser
I'm trying to repartition the drive in my laptop - trashing the XP partition to make space for a stable file system so I can test USB code. It appears that something has changed though since I last attempted this kind of thing and I just get errors now. The drive looks like this: *** Work