Re: FDISK cannot write

At 06:29 AM 9/7/2005, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>Hello
>
>I'm trying to add a partition to an existing disk at
5.4-R
>on a HP XW 4200 (SATA)
>
>FDSIK fail with an error message "cannot write
..."
>
>The "bizarre" thing is I have installed this
machine
>from CDROM and partitionning the disk was OK ...
>
>any idea on what happen ?

Is anything on the disk you're working with currently
mounted?  fdisk 
won't let you write to disks that have mounted filesystems.

-Glenn


>Thanks a lot.
>--
>Cordialement/Regards
>Frank Bonnet
>_______________________________________________
>freebsd-questionsfreebsd.org mailing list
>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que
stions
>To unsubscribe, send any mail to
"freebsd-questions-unsubscribefreebsd.org"

_______________________________________________
freebsd-questionsfreebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que
stions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to
"freebsd-questions-unsubscribefreebsd.org"