Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:28:45 +1030 From: Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: write(2) returns error saying read only filesystem when trying to write to a partition Message-ID: <3A348935.9E9EEC@dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <200012080154.eB81sFN00538@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <3A305227.D74011C4@dsto.defence.gov.au> <3A30F7FD.A6FA069D@newsguy.com>
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"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Regardless /dev/da18s1 should work as for /dev/da18 [snip] > > No, and no. You misunderstand the problem. > > A disk on IBM PC compatible computers has the following format: I dont misunderstand the problem and I do know how disks are laid out under FreeBSD. I may not have expressed myself very well when I said "/dev/da18s1 should work as for /dev/da18" as I was referring to my in context discussion of "why cant I write to this device". My point is that I should be able to write to anything and do the damage that would result. Solaris and Compaq's Tru64 (the OS formerly know as DEC OSF/1) both allow me to destroy the UNIX disklabel by writing to the 'c' partition. I am of the opinion that FreeBSD should allow me to as well. The kernel has an in-memory copy of the disklabel so there shouldn't be a technical issue to stop me from doing so. -- Matthew Thyer Phone: +61 8 8259 7249 Science Corporate Information Systems Fax: +61 8 8259 5537 Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury PO Box 1500 Salisbury South Australia 5108 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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