Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 21:08:57 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> To: phk@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied? Message-ID: <20030908200857.GA88209@genius.tao.org.uk>
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I'm trying to repartition the drive in my laptop - trashing the XP
partition to make space for a stable file system so I can test USB code.
It appears that something has changed though since I last attempted this
kind of thing and I just get errors now.
The drive looks like this:
******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=3D77520 heads=3D16 sectors/track=3D63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=3D77520 heads=3D16 sectors/track=3D63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 7 (0x07),(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX)
start 63, size 8376417 (4090 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 553/ head 239/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 8385930, size 69754230 (34059 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 554/ head 150/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 239/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
In-Reply-To: <1062947334.436.12.camel@quark.avioc.org>
If I repartition the first partition either using sysinstall or fdisk
I get an error when the write occurs.
Is there a sysctl to switch now? I'm not running in any kind of special se=
cure
mode so I would expect it to work. Did the symantics change with geom?
Joe
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