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Date:      Fri, 08 Dec 2000 23:44:14 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, FreeBSD-CURRENT <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: write(2) returns error saying read only filesystem when trying to write to a partition 
Message-ID:  <81426.976315454@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Dec 2000 17:39:32 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012081738190.78035-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012081738190.78035-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>, "Br
andon D. Valentine" writes:
>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?

Except it is not actually correct.  The BSD disklabel is usually
inside the 'a' partition and certainly inside the 'c'

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