From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 22:18:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 BE73916A55D for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:18:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F34DB43D49 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:18:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k05MHxR4008731; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:17:59 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <43BD9B17.4050902@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:17:59 -0600 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hieu Nguyen Danh <21thang3@gmail.com> References: <18d35ffd0601051349ve0de6cfg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <18d35ffd0601051349ve0de6cfg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: format disk in bsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:18:01 -0000 Hieu Nguyen Danh wrote: > Hi everybody > I have about 20Gb unused space and 40Gb of NTFS on my HDD an I want to > change them to ufs . But everytime when I tried with cfdisk-linux or > sysinstall => configure => fdisk (as root ) it is said that I am not > allowed to write disk table (or something like "disk read only" ) But I am > root , why did it happen? someone show me solution plz? Are you booting FreeBSD from a 3rd partition on that same disk, and then trying to run these tools? I don't believe that is allowed. You need to boot from CD or floppy to do formatting and partitioning on the same drive that FreeBSD normally boots from. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348