From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 15:30:40 2004 Return-Path: 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 714BD16A4D8 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:30:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.revolutionsp.com (ganymede.revolutionsp.com [64.246.0.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCA043D49 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:30:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from klr@6s-gaming.com) Received: from mail.revolutionsp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.revolutionsp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8DFE15C95 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:28:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 81.84.175.12 (SquirrelMail authenticated user klr@6s-gaming.com); by mailadmin.revolutionsp.com with HTTP; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:28:46 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <51383.81.84.175.12.1089203326.squirrel@81.84.175.12> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:28:46 -0000 (GMT) From: "Hugo Silva" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: bypass no new partitions protection ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:30:40 -0000 Hi all In one of my servers I left a 80GB disk unpartitioned to later partitition it according to my needs, only to have sysinstall always complain it couldn't write to ad1. I've googled a bit and it seems its related to some kind of protection that won't allow the system to create any new partitions while the system is running. Is there any way to bypass this behaviour? a patch? a trick ? I really need to overcome this but found no way. There should be a way to create partitions on the 2nd disk, since it's not being used by the system.. Many thanks! -- www.6s-gaming.com