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Date:      Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:16:43 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Pinheiro?= <jp@pontosi.pt>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   fdisk - can't update an in-use partition
Message-ID:  <46D063FB.5070602@pontosi.pt>

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Hi,
I have freebsd 6.2 installed on a disk with a 260Gb partition with only 
a 30Gb label (don't ask :P) and I'm trying to resize the active 
partition to the size of the existing label, so I can create another 
partition. I've already set kern.geom.debugflags=16 to be able to write 
to mbr, but fdisk doesn't update my disk and gives the following error:

fdisk: conflict with open slices

Does anywone know a way to force fdisk to update the partition table? 
This is a remote machine so I can't boot from CD to correct the 
partition table and/or reinstall the SO.

Thanks in advance,
    Joćo Pinheiro



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