Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 19:20:30 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition weirdness.. Message-ID: <199810040220.TAA00883@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Oct 1998 20:24:36 CDT." <199810040124.UAA04660@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu>
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> I have a couple of partitions that have been behaving somewhat odd. Also, > I have gotten a number of messages recently (from newfs--i think), about > not being able to rewrite the disklabel. Has anyone else been seen this? > > On 2 of my bios partitions, I can not write to the second sector. Doing > so will cause the following: > > friley-185-114:/# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda0s4e bs=512 count=1 seek=1 > dd: /dev/rda0s4e: Read-only file system > > If I seek past 2 sectors, or only write the first sector, I have no > trouble. Does anyone know what might be causing this? My disklabel, > and fdisk output follow.. This is the imaginative disklabel write-protection scheme. I'm not sure why newfs would have trouble; it ought to be using the disklabel ioctls directly. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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