In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Craig Rodrigues writes: >On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 05:37:46AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 01:31:10PM -0500, Craig Rodrigues wrote: >> >> > Any ideas what the problem could be? >> >> geom seems to have anti-foot-shooting measures in place to disallow >> access to the disk device when a partition on that disk is open. > >Are you referring to this in src/sys/geom/geom_bsd.c? > > 547 /* > 548 * If the user tries to overwrite our disklabel through an open partition > 549 * or via a magicwrite config call, we end up here and try to prevent > 550 * footshooting as best we can. > 551 */ > 552 static void > 553 g_bsd_hotwrite(void *arg) > > >The result of this is that I booted off of a slice contained on the >/dev/ad0 disk, then I cannot add new partitions to /dev/ad0 >with sysinstall, even if I am root.
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