From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Dec 13 09:01:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16418 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 09:01:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16410 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 09:01:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA06051; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 08:46:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 08:46:49 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199812131646.IAA06051@apollo.backplane.com> To: Bruce Evans Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, jin@iss-p5.lbl.gov Subject: Re: bin/7614 References: <199812131101.WAA21601@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. (Please include original email in any response) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message