Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 23:44:14 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, FreeBSD-CURRENT <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: write(2) returns error saying read only filesystem when trying to write to a partition Message-ID: <81426.976315454@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Dec 2000 17:39:32 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012081738190.78035-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012081738190.78035-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>, "Br andon D. Valentine" writes: >On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > >>No, and no. You misunderstand the problem. >> >>A disk on IBM PC compatible computers has the following format: >> >>| Partition table | Data | >> | Slice 1 | Slice 2 | Slice 3 | Slice 4 | >> | Disklabel | Data | >> | c | >> |a|b|f|g| > >That is really an excellent diagram. That should be in an FAQ >somewhere. Doc committers? Except it is not actually correct. The BSD disklabel is usually inside the 'a' partition and certainly inside the 'c' -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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