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Date:      Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:16:50 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Partition weirdness..
Message-ID:  <199810040216.MAA16510@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>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..

The second sector contains the disk label and is write protected except
when it is temporarily unprotected by disklabel(8) and newfs(8) to write
the label.

Bruce

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