Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 16:14:58 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au> Cc: "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@bsdwins.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: write(2) returns error saying read only filesystem when trying to write to a partition Message-ID: <200012080014.eB80Ew900494@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Dec 2000 08:43:36 %2B1030." <3A300B90.F20A6120@dsto.defence.gov.au>
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> CC: to -current as that's what I'm running. > > "John W. De Boskey" wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I can't answer your questions directly, but you might want > > to checkout the sources to newfs (/usr/src/sbin/newfs/newfs.c or > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/newfs/newfs.c?annotate=1.31 > > line 417). > > > > I'll be glad to review your program if you would like. > > I'm not after a review, I'd like FreeBSD-CURRENT fixed. > > The program works on Compaq True64 UNIX v 4.0d > It also works on Solaris 7 (only tested sparc). > > So it seems FreeBSD is broken here. FreeBSD just behaves differently. If you want to write to the whole disk, open the whole-disk device, not the 'c' partition. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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