Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:15:22 -0300 From: Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz> To: "Freek Nossin" <freeknossin@tiscali.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: format slice Message-ID: <20050311161522.38f6d03a@ale.varnet.bsd> In-Reply-To: <20050311165759.30F048011F4F@smtp-out3.tiscali.nl> References: <20050311165759.30F048011F4F@smtp-out3.tiscali.nl>
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:58:10 +0100 "Freek Nossin" <freeknossin@tiscali.nl> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a freebsd installation on a disk with two slices. One of them > has the current freebsd install, the other has a win2k installation. I > want to convert the win2k slice to a freebsd slice (by deleting the > old one and add a new one). I followed the handbook but when I try to > delete the win2k slice, and want to write the changes to the disk, > sysinstall returns "a disk error". The steps I took were simple: > > - run sysinstall en select fdisk > - choose delete on the NTFS slice > - Write changes > > Then sysinstall complains that it cannot do that (no specific > information on the cause of the error is displayed). > > Does anyone know what can be wrong and how can I solve this? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hello, Try using 'fdisk' directly (man 8 fdisk) and see the complete error messages. For example, to delete the second slice (check the numbering with 'fdisk -s') save the following in a file and then run 'fdisk -f <file>' (but first try the test mode with the -t flag to see if it works as expected): p 2 0 0 0 Best Regards, Ale P.S.: what is the output of 'fdisk -s'?
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