Re: Problems creating and writing to disk slices

2003-02-17 Thread phk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Darren Pilgrim writes: >I can understand the usefulness of preventing modifications applying to >mounted partitions, and I can see the logic in unliaterally preventing >them, but preventing modifying slice table and disk label entries for >unmounted portions of t

Re: Problems creating and writing to disk slices

2003-02-17 Thread Darren Pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joerg Wunsch writes: Darren Pilgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The above practices have worked fine for a long time in 4.x and still do even in 4.7p4, which is on this same machine. Get Matthew N. Dodd's patch at: ftp://ftp.jurai.net

Re: Problems creating and writing to disk slices

2003-02-17 Thread phk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joerg Wunsch writes: >Darren Pilgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The above practices have worked fine for a long time in 4.x and still do >> even in 4.7p4, which is on this same machine. > >Get Matthew N. Dodd's patch at: > >ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/patc

Re: Problems creating and writing to disk slices

2003-02-17 Thread Joerg Wunsch
Darren Pilgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The above practices have worked fine for a long time in 4.x and still do > even in 4.7p4, which is on this same machine. Get Matthew N. Dodd's patch at: ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/patches/geom-foot.patch (Hint: sysctl kern.geom.allow_foot_shoot

Problems creating and writing to disk slices

2003-02-16 Thread Darren Pilgrim
I've been trying to move the installed OSes around on my hard disk, but am having a huge amount of trouble doing so. The task involves dd'ing the slices off the disk for safe-keeping, modifying the on-disk slice table, then dd'ing the slices back onto the disk in their new locations. However,