FDISK cannot write

Glenn Dawson glenn at antimatter.net
Wed Sep 7 13:03:53 PDT 2005


At 06:29 AM 9/7/2005, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>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 ?

Is anything on the disk you're working with currently mounted?  fdisk 
won't let you write to disks that have mounted filesystems.

-Glenn


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