Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:01:34 +1200 From: Philip Murray <pmurray@nevada.net.nz> To: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird fdisk behavior Message-ID: <BD514A03-60AE-424C-9BF1-755B4E3254D2@nevada.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <20050618012856.GB51304@gremlin.foo.is> References: <20050618012856.GB51304@gremlin.foo.is>
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Hi, On 18/06/2005, at 1:28 PM, 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. > Try setting sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 before running fdisk. This stops GEOM protecting the drive/partition and allows fdisk to open it. I think fdisk and bsdlabel have been taught about GEOM in 6-current, but I very might well be wrong. Cheers Phil Murray
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