FreeBSD Label Editor Post-install Question

septima.pars · #1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2009

Hello there,

Over the past few days I have installed FreeBSD 7.1 (which i'm new at)
to an external Hard Drive.

When installing, I chose to partition the disk Automatically and now I'm trying to use the label editor (post-installation configuration) to name the mount points:

/
/usr
/var
/home

...on each of the separate partitions.
_______________________________________________________________

My question is when I start to label the mount points with the Label Editor and attempt to 'write' (finalize) my changes, i get an error saying something to the effect of "the disk could not be mounted" along with "operation not permitted"
(these errors are for EACH partition btw)

What am I doing wrong? How am I able to make my changes 'permanent' ?

P.S.

After being prompted, I also set the following because I was informed I could not perform the operations on disks that were in use.

Code:

sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16

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