From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 03:22:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA15296 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 03:22:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.digital.com (mail1.digital.com [204.123.2.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA15291 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 03:22:53 -0800 (PST) From: garyj@frt.dec.com Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com by mail1.digital.com (5.65 EXP 4/12/95 for V3.2/1.0/WV) id AA30240; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 03:16:17 -0800 Received: from localhost by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA32719; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 12:16:00 +0100 Message-Id: <9603251116.AA32719@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: questions%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com In-Reply-To: Message from "Christoph P. Kukulies" of Mon, 25 Mar 96 11:32:28 +0100. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: disklabel -r -w wd1 auto Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 12:16:00 +0100 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de writes: > > Why is that?: > > toots# disklabel -r -w wd1 auto > write: Read-only file system > toots# > > I established a FreeBSD partition before (it was a virgin disk). > I saw this recently too. Turned out that the 'c' partition had to start at block 0. This was a "dangerously dedicated" disk. --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de (play) gj@freebsd.org