Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:10:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: baldur@foo.is (Baldur Gislason) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange fdisk behavior on 5.4-STABLE Message-ID: <200506172010.j5HKARvD000102@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050617194542.GA51304@gremlin.foo.is>
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> > I have a hard drive in my laptop with a 30GB FreeBSD partition and a > few gigabytes of unused space (40GB hard drive). > I wanted to make another FreeBSD partition but when I run fdisk I get > this following error: > fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad0: No such file or directory > > /dev/ad0 does exist and fdisk has no problem printing the partition table, > but when run with -u it pretends > the disk doesn't exist. Well, are you trying to make fdisk write to the slice table of a drive that you have mounted - the one with ad0s1 on it which is probably where you are booted? That isn't allowed. Try it from a fixit disk boot. That is disk 1 in the 5.xxx ISO set. ////jerry > I had no problems partitioning a USB flash drive. > > Any suggestions? > > Baldur >
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