rhia...@falu.nl (Rhialto) writes: >Indeed, there I misinterpreted the size of my 1G disk, and put sd0b >waaay out of bounds. I tried again, with partition b in cyl 1-63 and a >in 64-1023. I could not start b at 0; in that case the dd command >claimed it was read-only.
The disklabel sector of a disk is read-only (you can lift that temporarily with the disklabel command).
