Re: write on device

From: Harald Schmalzbauer (h_at_schmalzbauer.de)
Date: 01/31/04

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    To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:21:02 +0100

    On Saturday 31 January 2004 18:06, Steve Kargl wrote:
    > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:40:58AM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
    > > Hello.
    > >
    > > It's looks like I can't write on devices into boot area on 5.x?
    > > Even when I'm root. Why?
    > > I can't create a partition, can't change MBR (I'm working with grub).
    > >
    > > Is there a workaround?
    >
    > This is becoming a FAQ. The author of GEOM has given GEOM
    > the useful feature of disabling writes to active devices.
    > You can set the kern.geom.debugflags sysctl in /boot/loader.conf
    > to 16 which allows footshooting.

    I think this _really_ is FAQ. Yesterday I had the same trouble and I
    remembered having heard about it several times but never paid attention.
    Please include this in the FAQ!
    Perhaps with explanation what the other debugflags are good for!

    Thank you,

    -Harry

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