Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 00:12:26 +0100 From: phk@freebsd.org To: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com> Cc: fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: restricted blocks? Message-ID: <899.1043795546@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "28 Jan 2003 14:09:30 CST." <1043784569.20928.58.camel@naboo.americas.sgi.com>
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In message <1043784569.20928.58.camel@naboo.americas.sgi.com>, Russell Cattelan writes: >Does anybody have quick answer as to why block 1 isn't writable? In all likelyhood your 'd' partition starts at offset zero and therefore the second sector contains the disklabel which the kernel will not allow you to overwrite. Use disklabel -e to change to size of the 'd' partiton down by 16, and set the offset to 16 and you should have no trouble. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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