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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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