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From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, Robert <traveling08@cox.net>,
        Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>
Subject: add to man fdisk: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
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>Number:         162801
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       add to man fdisk: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 23 23:10:09 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:    Thu Nov 24 05:13:28 UTC 2011
>Last-Modified:  Thu Nov 24 06:30:46 UTC 2011
>Originator:     Julian H. Stacey
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
http://berklix.com BSD Linux Unix Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD fire.js.berklix.net 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 2 23:10:13 CEST 2011 jhs@blak.js.berklix.net:/ad6s4/release/8.2-RELEASE/src/sys/amd64/compile/FIRE64.small amd64


	
>Description:
	man fdisk lacks info
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	This bit me in 7.1-REL
	 & just bit Robert <traveling08@cox.net> cc'd in 8.2-REL
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-November/235695.html
	
>Fix:
	http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/sbin/fdisk/
*** 8.0-RELEASE/src/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8	Sat Mar 14 22:32:16 2009
--- new-generic/src/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8	Sat Mar 14 22:35:10 2009
***************
*** 462,464 ****
--- 462,468 ----
  The
  .Xr bsdlabel 8
  command must be used for this.
+ .Pp
+ When running multi user, you cannot write unless you first run this:
+ .br
+ sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>, 
 Robert <traveling08@cox.net>
Subject: Re: bin/162801: add to man fdisk: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:25:02 +0400

 > + .Pp
 > + When running multi user, you cannot write unless you first run this:
 > + .br
 > + sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
 
 No, this is bad suggestion. You should use gpart(8) instead.
 
 -- 
 WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ae 
State-Changed-When: Thu Nov 24 05:08:49 UTC 2011 
State-Changed-Why:  
fdisk(8) is legacy tool and users of FreeBSD 8+ should use gpart(8) instead. 
The proposed suggestion already removed from boot0cfg(8) manual page, so 
it will not appears again. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=162801 

Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:18:10 +0100
From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re:add to man fdisk: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16

 Whoops, Re my last mail below,
 I mis-typed my domain in headers &
 most probably also wrong in body of send-pr too, sorry.
 	Wrong jhs@barklix.com	jhs@b A rklix.com		
 	Right jhs@berklix.com	jhs@b E rklix.com
 
 PS  Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> just posted a correction to my post
 to questions@freebsd.org
 
 Whatever words & commands an informed commiter chooses to add,  I'd
 suggest _Something_ whould be added as a lifebelt to man fdisk, as
 people get caught by fdisk not writing.
 
 Cheers,
 Julian
 -- 
 Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com
  Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ".
  Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
>Unformatted:
