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Date:      Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:45:58 +0400
From:      Igor Robul <igorr@speechpro.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: adding unused disk space for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <42D231C6.7000905@speechpro.com>
In-Reply-To: <200507091258.53748.ean@hedron.org>
References:  <42BC91DC00049E40@mssazhh-int.msg.bluewin.ch> <200507091258.53748.ean@hedron.org>

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Ean Kingston wrote:

>On July 9, 2005 11:07 am, you wrote:
>  
>
>>Thanks, Ean,  for your reply.
>>I tried it as you proposed.
>>The problem is that when it comes to saving the changes the following
>>message pops up: 'ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad4!'
>>    
>>
GEOM(4) prevent direct write to disk which has mounted filesystems.

sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16

temporary turn off this check, and help you rewrite your disk's 
partition table.
Dont use this sysctl permanently.





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