bypass no new partitions protection ?

[Bill Moran]

"Hugo Silva" <klr at 6s-gaming.com> wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> In one of my servers I left a 80GB disk unpartitioned to later partitition
> it according to my needs, only to have sysinstall always complain it
> couldn't write to ad1. I've googled a bit and it seems its related to some
> kind of protection that won't allow the system to create any new
> partitions while the system is running.

You need to cut/paste the _exact_ error message into your question.

> Is there any way to bypass this behaviour? a patch? a trick ? I really
> need to overcome this but found no way. There should be a way to create
> partitions on the 2nd disk, since it's not being used by the system..

I would like to know what patch/trick you used to _create_ this behaviour.

I have done exactly what you're describing several times, with never a
problem.  The default behaviour is to allow you to partition/newfs unused
disks in the system.

Is your securelevel set high?  If so, set it to -1 and reboot the system,
then try again.  You can't write to disk devices with securelevel at 2
or greater.  Other than that, I'm not sure what could be causing the
problem.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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