From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 8 14:39:43 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 14:39:42 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30F037B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 14:39:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA78955; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 17:39:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 17:39:32 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: FreeBSD-CURRENT Subject: Re: write(2) returns error saying read only filesystem when trying to write to a partition In-Reply-To: <3A30F7FD.A6FA069D@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: >No, and no. You misunderstand the problem. > >A disk on IBM PC compatible computers has the following format: > >| Partition table | Data | > | Slice 1 | Slice 2 | Slice 3 | Slice 4 | > | Disklabel | Data | > | c | > |a|b|f|g| That is really an excellent diagram. That should be in an FAQ somewhere. Doc committers? -- Brandon D. Valentine "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message