Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:08:30 -0500 From: Patrick Hartling <mystify@friley-186-113.res.iastate.edu> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Alleged "read-only" partition preventing ccd Message-ID: <199809171408.JAA27000@friley-186-113.res.iastate.edu>
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This summer, the boot disk on my machine died leaving me stuck for a way to boot (obviously). Since I have two other disks, I wasn't totally out of luck. The only solution I had was to break up my mirrored CCD and use a partition from it for / so I could get going again. I have since gotten a replacement for the dead disk and want to go back to having a mirrored CCD. Unfortunately, when I try to dd the existing partition to the mirroring location (raw device to raw device) in single-user mode, dd(1) only writes 512 bytes and then claims that the destination partition is read-only. However, I can write a new file system to that partition, mount it, create files, etc. I can even dd the character devices, but it takes about half an hour and then the CCD won't mount. If it would help, I can do that to get the exact error message, but I do not have time right now. Is there something that can be done to remove the read-only restriction on this partition? And for that matter, how did it get there in the first place? -Patrick Patrick L. Hartling | Research Assistant, ICEMT mystify@friley-186-113.res.iastate.edu | SE Lab - 1117 Black Engineering http://www.public.iastate.edu/~oz/ | http://www.icemt.iastate.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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