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Date:      Wed, 7 Sep 2005 09:37:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        f.bonnet@esiee.fr (Frank Bonnet)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FDISK cannot write
Message-ID:  <200509071337.j87DbsB9012302@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <431EEB35.5020207@esiee.fr>

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> Hello
> 
> I'm trying to add a partition to an existing disk at 5.4-R
> on a HP XW 4200 (SATA)
> 
> FDSIK fail with an error message "cannot write ..."
> 
> The "bizarre" thing is I have installed this machine
> from CDROM and partitionning the disk was OK ...
> 
> any idea on what happen ?

At what point are you doing an fdisk eg is after rebooting to full
multi-user mode or in single user mode, or??? and on which you disk
are you doing this?  Is it on your main disk - where root resides or
on another disk??     Is there any partition on that disk mounted?  

////jerry

> 
> Thanks a lot.
> -- 
> Cordialement/Regards
> Frank Bonnet
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