From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 07:04:37 2004 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 AAB9816A4CE; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:04:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from postino-1.etat.lu (postino-1.etat.lu [194.154.205.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D422B43D54; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 07:04:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from didier.wiroth@mcesr.etat.lu) Received: from avirus.cie.etat.lu (avirus.cie.etat.lu [148.110.136.55]) by postino-1.etat.lu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 122CE34AD5D; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:04:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from hermes-2 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by avirus.cie.etat.lu (8.11.7+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id i0HF4AM04512; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:04:10 +0100 (MET) Received: from conversion-daemon.mail.etat.lu by mail.etat.lu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) id <0HRN00K012J240@mail.etat.lu>; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:04:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from lucy ([148.110.43.189])18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HRN00EEB36ZGW@mail.etat.lu>; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:04:11 +0100 (MET) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:04:16 +0100 From: Didier WIROTH In-reply-to: <0HRL00N29EFF4K@mail.etat.lu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-id: <0HRN00EEC36ZGW@mail.etat.lu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Thread-index: AcPcJVjnNKgd9q0TQvus+9VVFk/mRgAKEkkQAAF0GnAALZ6joA== Subject: RE: ERROR: Unable to write data to disk idad1 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, 17 Jan 2004 15:04:37 -0000 How I solved the problem: 1) I booted the live-cd (5.2-release cd2) 2) Launched the "CDROM/DVD Use the "live" filesystem CDROM/DVD" 3) Launched /stand/sysinstall from the shell 4) and created the required partition from there. I rebooted in normal mode and formatted (with newfs) the partition and was able to use mount and use them. What did not work was disabling the geom protection. Setting the sysctl variable: kern.geom.debugflags=16 did not work for me. Some error occurred, the message was (more or less) that my device, the disk (where I wanted to add the partition, which also contained a swap partition) was busy because of the swap.