Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 08:46:49 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, jin@iss-p5.lbl.gov Subject: Re: bin/7614 Message-ID: <199812131646.IAA06051@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199812131101.WAA21601@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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ooops.. I *did* mean THEDISK, not THEPARTITION. Sorry!
-Matt
:
:This should fail in most cases where you need it to work, since labels
:are write protected.
:
:The easiest way to bypass the write protection is to exploit its brokennes
:for the whole disk, e.g.,
:
: dd if=THEDISK of=/var/tmp/youdokeepbackupsdontyou seek=whatever count=1
: dd if=/dev/zero of=THEDISK seek=whatever count=1
:
:where `whatever' is the offset of the label in sectors (= offset of slice
:+ 1 for "i386" disks).
:
:Bruce
:
:
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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