On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Joan Picanyol wrote: > * Alex Hoff <ahoff_at_sandvine.com> [20040607 16:47]: > > I have run in to an odd problem that on a freebsd 5.2 current system after > > running fdisk and disklabel the initial time on install, i am never allowed > > to do it again. > > > > What I have tried on many different systems, is to run sysinstall, and > > either run fdisk or label. After making a change and trying to write the > > changes, it will fail. Even if you dont make a change, and just try to write > > the current settings to the disk, it will fail. The following error comes up > > "ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0" (if also tried different types of > > disk devices - da/aacd). Ktrace shows the error as "errno 1 Operation not > > permitted" > > GEOM won't let you touch MBR/slices/partitions on used devices. For it > to allow footshooting you should set kern.geom.debugflags=16 Be REALLY careful with this! I have a documented case of te device entries getting confused and blowing away the wrong partition. I STRONGLY recommend AGAINST using this flag. Make backups, we are not responsible, etc. etc. etc. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Mon Jun 07 2004 - 15:46:48 UTC
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