At 9:04 AM +0100 2/4/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Garance A Drosihn writes:
> I drop out of sysinstall, do some things with that partition, and
then decide to redo the above sequence. Everything has been working
fine, but I'm just testing some things and I end up in a position
where it's quicker to newfs the partition than it is to 'rm' the
> files on it. So, I do the same exact sequence (starting with the
'umount' before running sysinstall), and this time when I do the
'w'rite, I am told:
ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad2!
My guess is that sysinstall (bogusly) did a swapon for the 'b'
parititon on your ad2 disk.
It occurs to me that I can now easily test this by doing a swapoff
command for /dev/ad2s1b. And indeed, if I do that before the second
run of sysinstall, everything works fine on the second trip through.
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