From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 6:48:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 760C337B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 06:48:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47E5643E65 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 06:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbeis@wxs.nl) Received: from yokozuna.bsd ([213.10.35.60]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H3CWWI01.1Q4 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:45:54 +0200 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:45:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Marco Beishuizen Reply-To: Marco Beishuizen To: FreeBSD questions mailing list Subject: Re: [SOLVED] fdisk: "unable to write data to disk" (RAID) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Homepage: FreeBSD: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, the wise Marco Beishuizen spoke, and said: > > Hi, > > I have two logical drives in a RAID controller. At startup FreeBSD > recognises them as amrd0 (RAID-5 with 4 disks) and amrd1 (RAID-0 with 1 > disk). > > Now I want to partition the amrd1 as 1 slice with 1 partition in it (just > to store data on it). But when I try in fdisk to write the changes to > disk, it says it is unable to write the changes. Now I can't do anything > with the disk. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks in advance, > > Marco Problem solved. When I installed FreeBSD on amrd0, I set the securelevel to high, instead of moderate. So there were a lot of things not allowed, like partitioning. -- "I found out why my car was humming. It had forgotten the words." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message