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Date:      Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:14:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Weird fdisk behavior
Message-ID:  <20050619161223.V83634@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050618012856.GB51304@gremlin.foo.is>
References:  <20050618012856.GB51304@gremlin.foo.is>

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On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Baldur Gislason wrote:

> I am trying to add another partition to my root drive, it has a few gigabytes of unpartitioned space.
> Whenever I try to run fdisk -u it says cannot open disk /dev/ad0: No such file or directory
> ad0 does exist, why does fdisk say otherwise? fdisk can display the partition table but it can't alter it.
> securelevel is -1 and this is FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE from the beginning of May this year.

Be aware that fdisk will fake up a partition table if the volume has no
table. Look for a message like:

warning: invalid partition table found

If you see that then there is no FDISK partition table.

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Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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