fdisk - can't update an in-use partition - solved

[João Pinheiro]

João Pinheiro escreveu:
> Hi,
> I have freebsd 6.2 installed on a disk with a 260Gb partition with 
> only a 30Gb label (don't ask :P) and I'm trying to resize the active 
> partition to the size of the existing label, so I can create another 
> partition. I've already set kern.geom.debugflags=16 to be able to 
> write to mbr, but fdisk doesn't update my disk and gives the following 
> error:
>
> fdisk: conflict with open slices
>
> Does anywone know a way to force fdisk to update the partition table? 
> This is a remote machine so I can't boot from CD to correct the 
> partition table and/or reinstall the SO.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>    João Pinheiro
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It seems fdisk updates the partition table anyway, it only displays a 
notice.

    João Pinheiro