Re: Can't change partition table anymore

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:47:03 +0200
In message <1112618841.71324.23.camel_at_buffy.york.ac.uk>, Gavin Atkinson writes:
>On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 07:28 +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>> BTW, the trick with kern.geom.debugflags=16 works and I put it permanently 
>> in my sysctl.conf. Could you please make it ON by default or make a 
>> warning at least?
>
>I actually agree with this.  It's so frustrating to not be able to do
>what you want to do as root.

I tend to belive in sensible safety features.  Forcing people who
do potentially dangerous acts to release the safety-catch mechanism
first doesn't strike me as a bad idea.

Only the most orthodox darwinists argue that guns should be sold
armed and loaded from curb-side, child-height baskets.

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