Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:46:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Martin Machacek <mm@i.cz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copying stuff onto an 'a' partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904141345570.15989-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990413150424.mm@i.cz>
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On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Martin Machacek wrote: > 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 > > (i.e it says that the target partition - which was not mounted anywhere - is > read-only) You shouldn't copy partitions this way; use a pipe of tars or dump/restore. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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