From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 3 08:28:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B27C16A4DE for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 08:28:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) Received: from koef.zs64.net (koef.zs64.net [213.238.47.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64BAF43D45 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 08:28:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) Received: (from stb@koef.zs64.net) (authenticated) by koef.zs64.net (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k738SVh3034765 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:28:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) In-Reply-To: <200608030550.k735ovOj097662@manor.msen.com> References: <200608030550.k735ovOj097662@manor.msen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stefan Bethke Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:29:08 +0200 To: "Michael R. Wayne" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk problem on 3ware based system (6.1-RELEASE-p3) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:28:45 -0000 Am 03.08.2006 um 07:50 schrieb Michael R. Wayne: > But, I am unable to create a third partition. Every time I do > that, I get: > ERROR: Unable to write data to disk twed0! Are there any mounted filesystems in those two first slices? Then geom won't allow you to modify the partition table. You need to boot off a CD, or set a sysctl to allow writing anyway (see geom(4)). Stefan -- Stefan Bethke Fon +49 170 346 0140