From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 9 13:16:45 2003 Return-Path: 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 9120337B401 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 13:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de (accms33.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.46.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7768843FE5 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 13:16:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuku@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.11.6/8.9.3) id h79KGh519464 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:16:43 +0200 Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:16:43 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <200308092016.h79KGh519464@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD fdisk/sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 20:16:45 -0000 I tried to invoke sysinstall to write an additional FreeBSD slice to the disk I was currently booted from. I intentionally chose the W option to write the changes since I didn't want to do an installtion. But I got an error that I could not write to the disk. Why is that? Because I'm booted from that disk? Or because the can only be one slice? Don't know. Just wondering. Is there a neat fdisk for FreeBSD like the linux fdisk (which is pfdisk derived, I believe). The FreeBSD fdisk is really archaic and I was not able to specify start/end block numbers. The calulated cyl numbers seemed to overlap with the previous partition so I bailed out and left it as it was and put up this question instead. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de