Can't fdisk newly installed disks

Simon Gao gao at schrodinger.com
Tue Aug 14 11:48:31 PDT 2007


illoai at gmail.com wrote:
> On 13/08/07, Simon Gao <gao at schrodinger.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running into some problem with fdisk newly installed drives.
>>     
> . . .
>   
>> # fdisk -BI da5
>> fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/da5: No such file or directory
>>     
>
> What is your securelevel?
>
> For example:
> % sysctl kern.securelevel
> kern.securelevel: -1
>
> man init for more about securelevels.
>
>   
# sysctl kern.securelevel
kern.securelevel: 3

Does higher security level prevent one from adding new file system?

Simon



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