From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 03:38:32 2004 Return-Path: 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 C432F16A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 03:38:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DAE43D68 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 03:38:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by sasami.jurai.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0GBcLdi060168; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 06:38:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 06:38:21 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-X-Sender: winter@sasami.jurai.net To: Didier Wiroth In-Reply-To: <30d24ef3.4ef330d2@etat.lu> Message-ID: <20040116063651.U90982@sasami.jurai.net> References: <30d24ef3.4ef330d2@etat.lu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ERROR: Unable to write data to disk idad1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:38:32 -0000 On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Didier Wiroth wrote: > I tried to add a partition (with /stand/sysinstall) to idad1s1. This > should become idad1s1f but when I try to "w"rite the changes to disk the > following error appears: "ERROR: Unable to write data to disk idad1!" > Unfortunately I'm not able to add any new partitions, why, what's wrong? GEOM may be preventing you from modifying the disklabel because you have filesystems mounted etc. Does the error occur when using 'disklabel'? -- 10 40 80 C0 00 FF FF FF FF C0 00 00 00 00 10 AA AA 03 00 00 00 08 00