On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, 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.

Be aware that fdisk will fake up a partition table if the volume has no
table. Look for a message like:

warning: invalid partition table found

If you see that then there is no FDISK partition table.

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Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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