From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 28 23:04:31 2005 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 EE8B816A41F for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:04:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dpk@dpk.net) Received: from shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net (shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net [207.246.149.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9EB643D48 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:04:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dpk@dpk.net) Received: from shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6SN4KrR063374; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dpk@localhost) by shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.10/Submit) with ESMTP id j6SN4Ks8063370; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:04:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net: dpk owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:04:20 -0700 (PDT) From: dpk X-X-Sender: dpk@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net To: Giorgos Keramidas In-Reply-To: <20050728225701.GB46755@gothmog.gr> Message-ID: <20050728155804.T79761@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> References: <20050719145822.W23753@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> <441x5tk3e9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050720064637.Q23753@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> <20050721100327.GA16179@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050728154356.A79761@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> <20050728225701.GB46755@gothmog.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large filesystem woes 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, 28 Jul 2005 23:04:32 -0000 On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > It won't wipe away the table. It will just let you edit the existing > table interactively, through a series of questions like: > > - Do you want to edit partition 1? > - Do you want to edit partition 2? > - Do you want to edit partition 3? > - Do you want to edit partition 4? > - Do you want to change the active partition? > - Do you want to save your changes to the disk? # df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 35082074 1147642 31127868 4% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc # fdisk -u fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/da0: No such file or directory # ls -ald /dev/da0* crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 12 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 13 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0s1 crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 18 Jul 28 08:56 /dev/da0s1a crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 19 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0s1b crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 20 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0s1c truss indicates that fdisk may be getting the error from somewhere else: stat("/dev/da0",0xbfbfeb30) = 0 (0x0) open("/dev/da0",0x2,00) ERR#1 'Operation not permitted' open("/dev/da0",0x0,027757765630) = 6 (0x6) open("/dev/da0s1",0x2,01001210100) ERR#1 'Operation not permitted' open("/dev/da0s2",0x2,01001210100) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' open("/dev/da0s3",0x2,01001210100) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' open("/dev/da0s4",0x2,01001210100) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' Because it is using devfs, I'm not able to create these missing slices in /dev. Most unfortunately, it appears it uses devfs in single user mode as well, so I can't test the theory.