Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:14:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird fdisk behavior Message-ID: <20050619161223.V83634@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20050618012856.GB51304@gremlin.foo.is> References: <20050618012856.GB51304@gremlin.foo.is>
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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. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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