Am 16.09.2012 11:41, schrieb Chris Rees:
On 16 September 2012 10:23, Julian H. Stacey <j...@berklix.com> wrote:
This is a resend as Benjamin Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu>
dropped the
Yuri <y...@rawbw.com>
from CC line, & Yuri was the original first poster in thread who
my patch would presumably have helped.
Reference:
From: Benjamin Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:49:41 -0400 (EDT)
Message-id: <alpine.gso.1.10.1209151448200....@multics.mit.edu>
Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
I have been applying this diff to my man fdisk:
http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/sbin/fdisk/
*** 8.0-RELEASE/src/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 Sat Mar 14 22:32:16 2009
--- new-generic/src/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8 Sat Mar 14 22:35:10 2009
***************
*** 462,464 ****
--- 462,468 ----
The
.Xr bsdlabel 8
command must be used for this.
+ .Pp
+ When running multi user, you cannot write unless you first run this:
+ .br
+ sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
I never submitted it as a send-pr,
anyone think I should submit it to help save people ?
We have had a long discussion about kern.geom.debugflags starting here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-October/028090.html
My understanding from that discussion is that your patch should not be
accepted.
Got to travel now, will read that thread later,
A shame if we would leave fdisk crippled undocumented, when so easy
to doc. the solution. Fdisk is known across many OSs Unix & beyond,
our BSD tools may be better nicer, but fdisk it what many will first
reach for,
a shame not to help newer people & visitors used to fdisk.
We inside FreeBSD crippled fdisk by adding these flags. Outsiders
wont expect the weirdness & get impression FreeBSD has a bug.
I think you have a point, but at the moment fdisk really doesn't work
properly at all; I find so many people complaining on IRC about "Why
doesn't fdisk work?"
To be honest, I'd be happy with replacing fdisk with a huge warning
"USE GPART!!"; fdisk isn't really standard anyway.
The alternative of course is to fix fdisk... *properly*.
Chris
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FreeBSD 9.1RC1 have a live-cd option and with this, fdisk work fine.
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