Re: Can't change partition table anymore

From: Andrey Chernov <ache_at_nagual.pp.ru>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 06:09:24 +0400
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:07:36AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > 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.

Thanx, I'll try, but why fdisk/sysinstall don't do that automatically for 
me as it was before for many years?

F.e. I can't even change active boot partition. What is foot-shooting 
prevention in that case? I see nothing but stupidity.

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