Re: problems with sysinstall
From: Andy Farkas (andyf_at_speednet.com.au)
Date: 10/30/03
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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:00:13 +1000 (EST) To: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru>
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.
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Andy Farkas
System Administrator
Speednet Communications
http://www.speednet.com.au/
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