format disk in bsd
Hi everybody I have about 20Gb unused space and 40Gb of NTFS on my HDD an I want to change them to ufs . But everytime when I tried with cfdisk-linux or sysinstall = configure = fdisk (as root ) it is said that I am not allowed to write disk table (or something like disk read only ) But I am root , why did it happen? someone show me solution plz? Thank you. -- === Nguyen Danh Hieu Physics Faculty Moscow State University ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
format disk in bsd
Hi everybody I have about 20Gb unused space and 40Gb of NTFS on my HDD an I want to change them to ufs . But everytime when I tried with cfdisk-linux or sysinstall = configure = fdisk (as root ) it is said that I am not allowed to write disk table (or something like disk read only ) But I am root , why did it happen? someone show me solution plz? Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: format disk in bsd
Hieu Nguyen Danh wrote: Hi everybody I have about 20Gb unused space and 40Gb of NTFS on my HDD an I want to change them to ufs . But everytime when I tried with cfdisk-linux or sysinstall = configure = fdisk (as root ) it is said that I am not allowed to write disk table (or something like disk read only ) But I am root , why did it happen? someone show me solution plz? Are you booting FreeBSD from a 3rd partition on that same disk, and then trying to run these tools? I don't believe that is allowed. You need to boot from CD or floppy to do formatting and partitioning on the same drive that FreeBSD normally boots from. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) gregb at scls.lib.wi.us, (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: format disk in bsd
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 17:21 +, Nguyen Danh Hieu wrote: Hi everybody I have about 20Gb unused space and 40Gb of NTFS on my HDD an I want to change them to ufs . But everytime when I tried with cfdisk-linux or sysinstall = configure = fdisk (as root ) it is said that I am not allowed to write disk table (or something like disk read only ) But I am root , why did it happen? someone show me solution plz? Thank you. -- === Nguyen Danh Hieu Physics Faculty Moscow State University ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There was a discussion about this the other day. Someone reminded us all that, by design, you can't change the slices and partitions on the system disk. You could do it by booting from Freesbie, or I believe there is a flag you can turn off in single-user mode. Check the mailing-list archives for the last couple of months. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
