From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 18:03:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07F016A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:03:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 598B843D5A for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:03:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1FI35Et084662; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:03:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1FI31s1084659; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:03:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:03:01 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Xi.Liu" Message-ID: <20050215180301.GE38158@dragon.nuxi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: "'freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Can not create slice on a SATA drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:03:07 -0000 On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:47:13PM -0500, Xi.Liu wrote: > I have Dell power edge S420 with only one SATA harddrive running FreeBSD > 5.3-RELEASE for AMD64 platform and the system is running fine. .. > I am trying to create a slice to use the all the rest unused disk space, but > some how I can save the changes using "sysinstall" > (see error messages below) .. > ??ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad4! ?k Boot single user and try to create the partition. GEOM won't allow writes to a disk after it has been mounted. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)