Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:50:14 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can not create slice on a SATA drive Message-ID: <20050215235014.GB96584@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <42126DED.6080501@withagen.nl> References: <F5DF799F740CD611802200034722783C02549716@pelican.mars.leitch.com> <20050215182130.GA85174@dragon.nuxi.com> <42126DED.6080501@withagen.nl>
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:47:25PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:09:48PM -0500, Xi.Liu wrote: > >>Still not very sure, .... (I am new using FreeBSD). > >>I guess even I boot singel user, the disk will still be mounted as /. > >Correct. / will be mount read-only. > >>Do I have to boot from a bootable-CD (say the installation CD)? > > > >Nope, you can use /usr/sbin/sysinstall. > >But you'll have to mount /usr (but do it read-only!) first if you didn't > >combine / + /usr into a single partition. > > I'm always using the 'cheat' option: > sysctl -w kern.geom.debugflags=16 > > Not shure if it is without ill effects. It allows total foot shooting and is quite dangerous. It is 'rm -rf' where the default FS to rm is / Booting single user is what most people should be doing for now. Especially someone "I am new using FreeBSD". -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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