Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 00:34:27 -0700 (PDT) From: James Taylor <jimmykt123@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can't modify partitions Message-ID: <20030513073427.88993.qmail@web14611.mail.yahoo.com>
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I have a disk /dev/da0 currently partitioned as one 36 gig partition, with no point point specified. I'm not sure how the mount point got through like that, but it seems that because of it I'm unable to make any changes to the disk. I go into sysinstall(can't run disklabel - it's a sparc64 machine)->Custom->Label and delete the partition (/dev/da0d). I then go to write the information and come up with "ERROR: Unable to write data to disk da0!". No matter what I do I keep getting this error when trying to make any change to the disk. I've tried doing something like "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0d count=1000000" trying to just wipe out the MBR and maybe get a little bit more for good measure, but that didn't seem to work. Doing any dd operations on just /dev/da0 come back with Operation not permitted (I'm assuming this is intended behaviour?) How do I clear the partition information on this drive? It's been driving me nuts for the past week or so. Thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
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