format disk in bsd
Greg Barniskis
nalists at scls.lib.wi.us
Thu Jan 5 14:18:01 PST 2006
Hieu Nguyen Danh wrote:
> Hi everybody
> I have about 20Gb unused space and 40Gb of NTFS on my HDD an I want to
> change them to ufs . But everytime when I tried with cfdisk-linux or
> sysinstall => configure => fdisk (as root ) it is said that I am not
> allowed to write disk table (or something like "disk read only" ) But I am
> root , why did it happen? someone show me solution plz?
Are you booting FreeBSD from a 3rd partition on that same disk, and
then trying to run these tools? I don't believe that is allowed. You
need to boot from CD or floppy to do formatting and partitioning on
the same drive that FreeBSD normally boots from.
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