On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:08, Andrey Chernov wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:20:27AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > > Recent -current says "Operation not permitted" for both fdisk and > > sysinstall partition changes (under su root). Something wrong happens > > with DIOCSMBR. Plain ATA disk ad0. Any ideas? > > When I comment out this two lines in geom_mbr.c, it works again as before: > //if (!(fflag & FWRITE)) > // return (EPERM); > It means something is wrong with FWRITE flag settings. Device itself is > writeable: > crw-r----- 1 root operator 8, 66 Apr 4 03:33 /dev/ad0 If you have part of that device open GEOM won't let you touch the MBR.. You can turn the foot-shooting prevention off by doing.. sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 Make sure you set it back to 0 after you're done. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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