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Date:      Sun, 11 Apr 2004 01:19:23 +0200
From:      Joan Picanyol i Puig <lists-gmane@biaix.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8).
Message-ID:  <pan.2004.04.10.23.19.19.801140@biaix.org>
References:  <50127.192.168.0.105.1081599736.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net>

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On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:22:16 +0200, Julien Gabel wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Here is my problem. I had a hard disk for one year now, working together
> with an other identical disk in a _hard_ mirror.
What's a '_hard_ mirror'? How did you set it up?

> - But when I tried to create a slice on it, I get:
>   # fdisk -BI ad10
>   ******* Working on device /dev/ad10 *******
>   fdisk: can't write fdisk partition table: Operation not permitted
GEOM doesn't let you touch the disk if some partition is mounted off it.
Try setting kern.geom.debugflags to 1
 
> 3/ Anything else to say to diagnose my problem?
Please show us /etc/fstab and the output of mount

qvb
-- 
pica




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