Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 2003 07:17:29 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Heiko Schaefer <hschaefer@fto.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gbde init -i issue 
Message-ID:  <5086.1051679849@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:05:36 %2B0200." <20030430000202.I23260@daneel.foundation.hs> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In message <20030430000202.I23260@daneel.foundation.hs>, Heiko Schaefer writes:
>Hallo again,
>
>i have one more (very weird) problem with gbde (the tool, this time).
>doing "gbde init /dev/foo -i" works for one of two partitions that i want
>to use with gbde, but not the other.
>
>after writing the template and quitting vi, i get
>"gbde: write sector 0: Operation not permitted"
>
>...what could be causing this?

You might be trying to overwrite the BSD disklabel.

If it is a BSD disklabel or SUN label, change it so it starts at least
16 sectors into the disk.


-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?5086.1051679849>