Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:17:59 -0600 From: Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> To: Hieu Nguyen Danh <21thang3@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: format disk in bsd Message-ID: <43BD9B17.4050902@scls.lib.wi.us> In-Reply-To: <18d35ffd0601051349ve0de6cfg@mail.gmail.com> References: <18d35ffd0601051349ve0de6cfg@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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