format slice
Alejandro Pulver
alejandro at varnet.biz
Fri Mar 11 11:14:41 PST 2005
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:58:10 +0100
"Freek Nossin" <freeknossin at tiscali.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a freebsd installation on a disk with two slices. One of them
> has the current freebsd install, the other has a win2k installation. I
> want to convert the win2k slice to a freebsd slice (by deleting the
> old one and add a new one). I followed the handbook but when I try to
> delete the win2k slice, and want to write the changes to the disk,
> sysinstall returns "a disk error". The steps I took were simple:
>
> - run sysinstall en select fdisk
> - choose delete on the NTFS slice
> - Write changes
>
> Then sysinstall complains that it cannot do that (no specific
> information on the cause of the error is displayed).
>
> Does anyone know what can be wrong and how can I solve this?
>
>
>
>
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Hello,
Try using 'fdisk' directly (man 8 fdisk) and see the complete error
messages.
For example, to delete the second slice (check the numbering with
'fdisk -s') save the following in a file and then run 'fdisk -f <file>'
(but first try the test mode with the -t flag to see if it works as
expected):
p 2 0 0 0
Best Regards,
Ale
P.S.: what is the output of 'fdisk -s'?
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