fdisk problem on 3ware based system (6.1-RELEASE-p3)

Thu Aug 3 08:28:45 UTC 2006

Am 03.08.2006 um 07:50 schrieb Michael R. Wayne:

> But, I am unable to create a third partition.  Every time I do  
> that, I get:
>    ERROR: Unable to write data to disk twed0!

Are there any mounted filesystems in those two first slices? Then  
geom won't allow you to modify the partition table. You need to boot  
off a CD, or set a sysctl to allow writing anyway (see geom(4)).

Stefan

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