From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 6 12:49:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D06137B401 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:49:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (www.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B230543F3F for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:49:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from murat@bicer.org) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77507239EE; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:49:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 15:49:23 -0500 Received: by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix, from userid 99) id 715A1189F3; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:49:23 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Murat Bicer" To: "Andy Farkas" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 15:49:23 -0500 X-Epoch: 1044564563 X-Sasl-enc: meSaGyCoEW9zyP9IMnHHig Subject: Re: sysinstall->Configure->Fdisk References: <20030204170512.R31941-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030204170512.R31941-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> Message-Id: <20030206204923.715A1189F3@www.fastmail.fm> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:16:22 +1000 (EST), "Andy Farkas" said: > > sysinstall's 'FDISK Partition Editor' won't let me create a second slice. > > After pressing 'w' it says: "ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad4!" > then check your securelevel man securelevel 2 Highly secure mode - same as secure mode, plus disks may not be opened for writing (except by mount(2)) whether mounted or not. This level precludes tampering with filesystems by unmounting them, but also inhibits running newfs(8) while the system is multi-user. Murat Bicer murat@bicer.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message