From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 10 14:19:43 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 93E3316A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1D743D1D for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:19:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BCPt7-00034Q-00 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 23:19:41 +0200 Received: from 86.red-213-97-212.pooles.rima-tde.net ([213.97.212.86]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 23:19:41 +0200 Received: from lists-gmane by 86.red-213-97-212.pooles.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 23:19:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Joan Picanyol i Puig Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 01:19:23 +0200 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <50127.192.168.0.105.1081599736.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.red-213-97-212.pooles.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Sender: news Subject: Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, not even a slice using fdisk(8). 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, 10 Apr 2004 21:19:43 -0000 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