In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Darren Pilgrim writes:
>I can understand the usefulness of preventing modifications applying to >mounted partitions, and I can see the logic in unliaterally preventing >them, but preventing modifying slice table and disk label entries for >unmounted portions of the disk gets more in the way than helps. You should be able to modify any non-open partition/slice provided you don't try to make them overlap an open one. You have to use the right options to the right programs on the right devices though. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message