From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 13 12:45: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0184B15180 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:44:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA14929; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:42:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA00607; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 18:47:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199904131747.SAA00607@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: mm@i.cz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copying stuff onto an 'a' partition In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:04:24 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 18:47:51 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 > > --- > [PGP KeyID F3F409C4] -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message