Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:04:20 -0700 (PDT) From: dpk <dpk@dpk.net> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large filesystem woes Message-ID: <20050728155804.T79761@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> In-Reply-To: <20050728225701.GB46755@gothmog.gr> References: <20050719145822.W23753@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> <441x5tk3e9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050720064637.Q23753@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> <20050721100327.GA16179@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050728154356.A79761@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> <20050728225701.GB46755@gothmog.gr>
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> It won't wipe away the table. It will just let you edit the existing
> table interactively, through a series of questions like:
>
> - Do you want to edit partition 1?
> - Do you want to edit partition 2?
> - Do you want to edit partition 3?
> - Do you want to edit partition 4?
> - Do you want to change the active partition?
> - Do you want to save your changes to the disk?
# df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a 35082074 1147642 31127868 4% /
devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
# fdisk -u
fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/da0: No such file or directory
# ls -ald /dev/da0*
crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 12 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0
crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 13 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0s1
crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 18 Jul 28 08:56 /dev/da0s1a
crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 19 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0s1b
crw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 20 Jul 28 15:56 /dev/da0s1c
truss indicates that fdisk may be getting the error from somewhere else:
stat("/dev/da0",0xbfbfeb30) = 0 (0x0)
open("/dev/da0",0x2,00) ERR#1 'Operation not permitted'
open("/dev/da0",0x0,027757765630) = 6 (0x6)
open("/dev/da0s1",0x2,01001210100) ERR#1 'Operation not permitted'
open("/dev/da0s2",0x2,01001210100) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
open("/dev/da0s3",0x2,01001210100) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
open("/dev/da0s4",0x2,01001210100) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
Because it is using devfs, I'm not able to create these missing slices in
/dev. Most unfortunately, it appears it uses devfs in single user mode as
well, so I can't test the theory.
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