fdisk unable to open hdb

dr_zayus69 · 01-11-2005, 07:59 PM

Hi. I'd like to repartition my second drive which is hdb so as root i do /sbin/fdisk hdb and i get an error saying that fdisk cannot open hdb. I know you can't partition a mounted drive but hdb is not mounted and i have not changed any permissions myself. Does anyone know what is going on?

egag · 01-11-2005, 08:01 PM

...maybe try : " sbin/fdisk /dev/hdb " .

egag

dr_zayus69 · 01-11-2005, 08:04 PM

thanks that was the problem. For some reason i always forget about the /dev/ part.