pdisk help

[Shawn Dunn]

That's because you're using the wrong device, you should be using /dev/hd* or /dev/sd*  depending on whether your system is IDE or SCSI, respectively


				--Shawn

On 20 May 2002 13:19:53 -0400
Chris Saunders <csaunders@cogeco.ca> wrote:

> Hello again gentlemen,
> 
> I've been searching all morning, but I have been unable to find any
> helpful information on pdisk.  Here's the problem:
> 
> - boot to single user mode
> - run pdisk
> 
> I can see /dev/disk0 or /dev/rdisk0's partition maps, but I am unable to
> write to either of them - I get the 'The map is not writeable.' error
> message.  Le grr.
> 
> If there is a more appropriate list or URL to find this information
> from, please let me know - hugely frustrated at this point.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> 
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