Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:00:01 -0400 From: "Michael R. Wayne" <freebsd@wayne47.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk problem on 3ware based system (6.1-RELEASE-p3) Message-ID: <20060804060001.GM25626@manor.msen.com> In-Reply-To: <DB2F4538-5363-476F-B9C4-508194AB3F1E@lassitu.de> References: <200608030550.k735ovOj097662@manor.msen.com> <DB2F4538-5363-476F-B9C4-508194AB3F1E@lassitu.de>
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:29:08AM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote: > 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)). Thank you! Setting sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10 permitted me to do the work with fdisk. I tried to use sysinstall but it appears to only modify the in-core structure but not to update the disk. Perhaps sysinstall needs a few tweaks? /\/\ \/\/
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