Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:36:55 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Stevan Tiefert <stevan_tiefert@yahoo.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can not add a partition Message-ID: <20070614143655.GB18613@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1181769588.38379.4.camel@vagabund.w33> References: <1181769588.38379.4.camel@vagabund.w33>
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > Hello list, > > I left a little bit space left in my slice during the installation. Now > I wanted to use this left space to create a gbde-partition. > > When I use sysinstall and create in menu "Label" a new partition and I > hit "W" to write my changes to disk an error appears, that label didn't > created the partition I wanted. > > My question is why can I not add a partition in my existing slice? On > what should I take care maybe? > You are probably booted to that slice. You cannot (properly) write to the label of the device you are booted to. So, trying booting from the install CD and bring up the fixit and do it from there. ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > 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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