Re: partition oddity

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     You can zero out the disk slice using e.g. ad8s2 (which is access without
>     going through the label and thus is able to overwrite the label), but
>     if you access it via a partition in the label and the partition starts
>     at sector 0, e.g. ad8s2d, then that chunk at the beginning containing
>     the label itself will be read-only by default.

Hmm, unfortunately, using ad8s2 alone gives the same result:

zoot# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad8s2
dd: /dev/ad8s2: Read-only file system
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.003719 secs (0 bytes/sec)


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