Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:11:51 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> To: Nguyen Danh Hieu <ndh.21march@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: format disk in bsd Message-ID: <1136517111.859.11.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <f0192ed90601050921h5ee0fc05g@mail.gmail.com> References: <f0192ed90601050921h5ee0fc05g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 17:21 +0000, Nguyen Danh Hieu 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? > Thank you. > > -- > =================== > Nguyen Danh Hieu > > Physics Faculty > Moscow State University > _______________________________________________ > 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" There was a discussion about this the other day. Someone reminded us all that, by design, you can't change the slices and partitions on the system disk. You could do it by booting from Freesbie, or I believe there is a flag you can turn off in single-user mode. Check the mailing-list archives for the last couple of months.
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