From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 14 13:49:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A223158C7 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:49:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05513; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:46:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:46:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Martin Machacek Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copying stuff onto an 'a' partition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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