Re: partition oddity

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :zoot# mount | grep ad8s2d
> :zoot# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad8s2d
> :dd: /dev/ad8s2d: Read-only file system
> :1+0 records in
> :0+0 records out
> :0 bytes transferred in 0.009650 secs (0 bytes/sec)
> :
> :Sascha
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>     That's odd.  Is /dev or / mounted read-only?  What about the modes
>     on /dev/ad8s2d ?   If you do a fresh boot (i.e. never having tried to
>     mount anything using that device), and then issue the dd, does it
>     work differently?
>
>     Does disklabel recognize the disk?
>
>     Also try regenerating the /dev entry for ad8s2.
>
>     cd /dev
>     ./MAKEDEV ad8
>     ./MAKEDEV ad8s2
>     ./MAKEDEV ad8s2a

Hmm,

I tried most of this, all negative.

However, I _do_ have some partitions of the ad8s1 slice mounted (/, 
/usr, etc.). Could it be because of this? I would think this shouldn't 
affect partitions on ad8's other slices, right?

I'll try later from a LiveCD.

Sascha

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