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Date:      Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:50:12 +0100
From:      Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fdisk/bsdlabel: cannot write to disk
Message-ID:  <200501252250.12582.danny@ricin.com>
In-Reply-To: <003c01c502b2$b2fd34e0$4801a8c0@ws-ew-3.W2KDEMIG>
References:  <003c01c502b2$b2fd34e0$4801a8c0@ws-ew-3.W2KDEMIG>

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On Tuesday 25 January 2005 08:51, Norbert Koch wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am rather new to FBSD5.3.
> I did a custom install leaving
> some room on my (ata) hard disks. Later I
> decided to create a separate /usr/obj
> partition. I started /stand/sysinstall
> and tried to create a new slice and
> a new partition in it. Sysinstall reported
> that it cannot write to the hard disk.
> Next I only tried to create a new
> partition inside an existing slice.
> The same again. I tried the same manually
> with fdisk/bsdlabel and the same happens.
> I tried it in single user mode and even booted
> FREESBIE. Always the same problem.
>

Was it mounted?

HTH,

Dan



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