Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:47:45 +0200 From: Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org> To: "Michael T. Stolarchuk" <mts@off.to> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: read only file system? Message-ID: <20000705174745.B28124@snoopy.brwn.org> In-Reply-To: <200007051538.LAA23048@off.to>; from mts@off.to on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 11:38:39AM -0400 References: <200007051538.LAA23048@off.to>
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Hi, Try using the /dev/ad1 device. /dev/ad1c refers to a slice on the drive that refers to all of the disk space.. The "c" happens to stand for "complete". Regards Willem Brown On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 11:38:39AM -0400, Michael T. Stolarchuk wrote: > > I'd like to make copies of complete drives, starting at > block 0 to the last block of the physical volume. > I used to be able to do that, but now i get EROFS errors, > and don't know how to get around them... > > These are ide drives, we bought a bunch of them to > replicate and use to boot and run some 8 alphas... > (we don't use the drives for performance, we've got > fast scsi for that), so all the drives we want to > copy onto are the same hardware devices.... > > We get the error when we: > > dd if=/dev/ad0c of=/dev/ad1c > or > dd if=/dev/rad0c of=/dev/rad1c > > > i belive we're getting the EROFS cause of trying to write > disk label data... > > mts. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- /* =============================================================== */ /* Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. The choice is yours. */ /* =============================================================== */ Colvard's Logical Premises: All probabilities are 50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't. Colvard's Unconscionable Commentary: This is especially true when dealing with someone you're attracted to. Grelb's Commentary Likelihoods, however, are 90% against you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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