Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:48:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: peo@intersonic.se (Per olof Ljungmark) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall: label editor:unable to write data Message-ID: <200506171348.j5HDmXdE021648@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <42B2B569.2060500@intersonic.se>
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> > I am trying to modify the da0s1 slices on a harddisk under 5.4 using > /usr/sbin/sysinstall. > I delete an existing slice and create two new ones in the old freed > space. When writing the changes I get: > > ERROR: Unable to write data to disk da0! Yes, you are not allowed to do that to mounted disk space. You will need to boot from a different disk to work on da0s1. ////jerry > > There are no naming conflicts > Single user and multiuser no difference > There are only two existing slices mounted, / and /tmp no separate > slices for /var /usr and so on. > What am I missing here? > Thanks, > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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