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Subject: Re: Can't modify partitions
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1) Correct
2) The drive *shouldn't* be in use, it's not mounted. 
Actually, there are 3 drives causing me the same
trouble.  da0,da1 and da2.  da3 and da4 are the drives
the system is installed on.  The 3 problem drives
aren't mounted, so I'm not sure what they're doing.  I
ran sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml - Not quite sure what
I'm supposed to be looking for or doing here.  All 5
of my drives are listed.  Does that mean anything in
particular?


--- Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> 
> I'll assume two things.
> 1) You're running 5.x.
> 2) The drive is in use (somehow). FS mounted? Try
> `sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml`
> 
> If this is the case, then GEOM has managed to keep
> you from shooting
> yourself in the foot :-)
> You may want to boot off a fixit disk so you're sure
> nothing's using the disk.
> 
> HTH,
> -- Josh
> 
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