fdisk/bsdlabel: cannot write to disk

[Danny Pansters]

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 08:51, Norbert Koch wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am rather new to FBSD5.3.
> I did a custom install leaving
> some room on my (ata) hard disks. Later I
> decided to create a separate /usr/obj
> partition. I started /stand/sysinstall
> and tried to create a new slice and
> a new partition in it. Sysinstall reported
> that it cannot write to the hard disk.
> Next I only tried to create a new
> partition inside an existing slice.
> The same again. I tried the same manually
> with fdisk/bsdlabel and the same happens.
> I tried it in single user mode and even booted
> FREESBIE. Always the same problem.
>

Was it mounted?

HTH,

Dan