Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > Richard Nyberg wrote: > >Doug White wrote: > > > yes, this is a change to -current. It is for your own safety. > > > > I think this change in current is for the worse. I don't see why > > I can't manage slices and partitions from my regular OS, but have > > to boot up a CD to do the job. It's not even safer; I am perfectly > > capable of destroying my disk layout from the CD too. > > Agree. Why I can't change active slice? Or add a partition? Or repair my > master boot record? > It's absolutely safe. Its a major PITA and POLA violation IMHO. The super-user should be able to foot-shoot whatever she wants to. For example, you setup a production box with a 60 gig disk. You allocate 40 gig initially, leaving 20 gig as "reserve". Time passes. You now need that extra 20 gig but can not down the server. You are stuffed. -- :{ andyf_at_speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/Received on Thu Oct 30 2003 - 04:00:36 UTC
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