Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 18:47:51 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: mm@i.cz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copying stuff onto an 'a' partition Message-ID: <199904131747.SAA00607@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:04:24 %2B0200." <XFMail.990413150424.mm@i.cz>
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> I've got a (maybe) stupid question. Is there anything special with the 'a'
> patition on a disk? I've tried folllowing command on a system running in
> singleuser (i.e. the source partition was mounted read-only):
>
> dd if=/dev/rda0s1a of=/dev/rda1s1a
>
> And receveived error message saying:
>
> /dev/rda1s1a: Read-only file system
[.....]
Does a ``disklabel -W'' help ?
> Martin
>
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