Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:03:36 -0700 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FDISK cannot write Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20050907125846.07913100@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <431EEB35.5020207@esiee.fr> References: <431EEB35.5020207@esiee.fr>
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At 06:29 AM 9/7/2005, Frank Bonnet wrote: >Hello > >I'm trying to add a partition to an existing disk at 5.4-R >on a HP XW 4200 (SATA) > >FDSIK fail with an error message "cannot write ..." > >The "bizarre" thing is I have installed this machine >from CDROM and partitionning the disk was OK ... > >any idea on what happen ? Is anything on the disk you're working with currently mounted? fdisk won't let you write to disks that have mounted filesystems. -Glenn >Thanks a lot. >-- >Cordialement/Regards >Frank Bonnet >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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