From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 8 14:44:24 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 14:44:22 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2C237B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 14:44:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB8MiEL81428; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 23:44:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , FreeBSD-CURRENT Subject: Re: write(2) returns error saying read only filesystem when trying to write to a partition In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Dec 2000 17:39:32 EST." Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 23:44:14 +0100 Message-ID: <81426.976315454@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , "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' -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message