Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:01:17 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: nagylzs@freemail.hu (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?L=E1szl=F3_Nagy?=) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unable to write data to disk ad0 Message-ID: <200601032001.k03K1HI6018460@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <43B74566.9010202@freemail.hu>
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> > > >First of all, lets get the terminology straightened out. > >I think you mean to say that you want to add a partition to > >your FreeBSD slice. > > > Yes. > > >Second, I presume you are booted to that drive. The system does > >not allow you to modify the label on the boot drive. If it is the > >only FreeBSD bootable drive you have, then you will need to boot > >from the 'fixit' CD and run from that to modify the label and > >add the additional partition. > > > > > Well, finally I read the disklabel manual over again (about 3 times) and > I COULD add a new > partition on my boot drive! > > >By the way, this is in either the handbook, FAQs or the archive. > > > > > This is typical. You know what, after googling for serveral hours, I > found out that > it did not let me write on the disk because the kernel had > SECURELEVEL=2. This is > something that should be in the manual. I appreciate that you wanted to > help me, but > actually you pointed me to the wrong direction two times. regardless, you would be better off doing this from a not booted drive. ////jerry > > I suggest to change the documentation of the disklabel/bsdlabel and > fdisk programs. > We should add this warning: > > "Warning: you need to disable your kernel securelevel in /etc/rc.conf. > The kernel does not > allow to modify disk label information above securelevel=N." > > (I'm still not sure about the value of N). > > I'm not sure where can I add this request to change the documentation. > But it would save hundreds of hours for newbies and supporters too. > > Best, > > Les > >
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