Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:16:43 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD fdisk/sysinstall Message-ID: <200308092016.h79KGh519464@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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I tried to invoke sysinstall to write an additional FreeBSD slice to the disk I was currently booted from. I intentionally chose the W option to write the changes since I didn't want to do an installtion. But I got an error that I could not write to the disk. Why is that? Because I'm booted from that disk? Or because the can only be one slice? Don't know. Just wondering. Is there a neat fdisk for FreeBSD like the linux fdisk (which is pfdisk derived, I believe). The FreeBSD fdisk is really archaic and I was not able to specify start/end block numbers. The calulated cyl numbers seemed to overlap with the previous partition so I bailed out and left it as it was and put up this question instead. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de
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