From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 19:53:28 2005 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 7194116A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:53:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-out2.tiscali.nl (smtp-out2.tiscali.nl [195.241.79.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E4243D55 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:53:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freeknossin@tiscali.nl) Received: from edsger (195-241-9-180-mx.xdsl.tiscali.nl [195.241.9.180]) by smtp-out2.tiscali.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81BD8B00095C; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:53:26 +0100 (CET) From: "Freek Nossin" To: Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:53:38 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 In-Reply-To: <20050311161522.38f6d03a@ale.varnet.bsd> Thread-Index: AcUmbpSGuPtFzcfoS52bFnn07BcETAAAwNyw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Message-Id: <20050311195326.81BD8B00095C@smtp-out2.tiscali.nl> cc: alejandro@varnet.biz Subject: RE: format slice 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: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:53:28 -0000 Thank you for your suggestions, I followed them and this is what happened: pcwin451# fdisk -s /dev/ad0: 39704 cyl 16 hd 63 sec Part Start Size Type Flags 1: 63 20820177 0x07 0x00 2: 20820240 19201392 0xa5 0x80 Part 1 is the one I want to convert to a freebsd slice. Now I used fdisk -f with the input p 1 0 0 0 the operation succeeded. I did again: pcwin451# fdisk -s /dev/ad0: 39704 cyl 16 hd 63 sec Part Start Size Type Flags 2: 20820240 19201392 0xa5 0x80 And this was indeed the output I expected. So I thought lets see what sysinstall thinks of all this. Selecting fdisk in the menu showed me a disk layout where the NTFS partition still was on the disk. Disk name: ad0 FDISK Partition Editor DISK Geometry: 39704 cyls/16 heads/63 sectors = 40021632 sectors (19541MB) Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 12 unused 0 63 20820177 20820239 ad0s1 4 NTFS/HPFS/QNX 7 20820240 19201392 40021631 ad0s2 8 freebsd 165 How can this be? I've always assumed that sysinstall uses the fdisk tool? And which one is "correct"? Is it wise to try creating a new slice with fdisk? -----Original Message----- From: Alejandro Pulver [mailto:alejandro@varnet.biz] Sent: vrijdag 11 maart 2005 20:15 To: Freek Nossin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: format slice On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:58:10 +0100 "Freek Nossin" wrote: > Hello, > > I have a freebsd installation on a disk with two slices. One of them > has the current freebsd install, the other has a win2k installation. I > want to convert the win2k slice to a freebsd slice (by deleting the > old one and add a new one). I followed the handbook but when I try to > delete the win2k slice, and want to write the changes to the disk, > sysinstall returns "a disk error". The steps I took were simple: > > - run sysinstall en select fdisk > - choose delete on the NTFS slice > - Write changes > > Then sysinstall complains that it cannot do that (no specific > information on the cause of the error is displayed). > > Does anyone know what can be wrong and how can I solve this? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hello, Try using 'fdisk' directly (man 8 fdisk) and see the complete error messages. For example, to delete the second slice (check the numbering with 'fdisk -s') save the following in a file and then run 'fdisk -f ' (but first try the test mode with the -t flag to see if it works as expected): p 2 0 0 0 Best Regards, Ale P.S.: what is the output of 'fdisk -s'?