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]>, "Kevin Oberman" write= >s: >>=20 >> >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 this morning.) >>=20 >> If this is the case it is a bug in fdisk(8). >>=20 >> The only restriction GEOM introduces is that you cannot change an >> _open_ device. Anything else is a bug. >>=20 > >Change, or update? It's probable that fdisk is writing the entire >partition table in one go. Shouldn't geom be ok it the bit that refers >to open devices is the same as it was before?
Yes, exactly. I've put this on my list for when I get home. If somebody can make a small shell script which reproduces this, it will be fixed faster. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
