From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 29 15:48:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF01837B401 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 15:48:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BCCA43EA9 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 15:48:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wa1ter@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com wa1ter@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [67.114.254.215] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with NetMail SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.22 $ on Novell NetWare via secured & encrypted transport (TLS); Sun, 29 Dec 2002 16:50:09 -0700 Message-ID: <3E0F7FAE.7090100@hotmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 15:05:18 -0800 From: walt Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021128 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: editting disklabels References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to edit my disklabels to create some swap on just all of them, > however when I try to do so, I get: > --------------- > files# disklabel -w -B ad4s1 auto > disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: open partition would move or shrink > --------------- > > This is in single user mode, with really nothing going on. > So I fail to see how that can be true.... > > Any references to these kind of problems thus far have to do with GEOM, > but this is GENERIC kernel fo 20 dec. No one who knows anything is awake today, so I'll jump in ;-) I just finished editing my partition table and disklabel with the -CURRENT boot/install floppy disks and had no trouble. I think the -CURRENT install CD would do the same, of course. The GEOM code is still changing every day so things are not yet in finished condition. If I understand correctly phk will eventually make it possible to do what you want, but he's not there quite yet. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message