gbde init -i issue

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20030430000202.I23260 at daneel.foundation.hs>, Heiko Schaefer writes:
>Hallo again,
>
>i have one more (very weird) problem with gbde (the tool, this time).
>doing "gbde init /dev/foo -i" works for one of two partitions that i want
>to use with gbde, but not the other.
>
>after writing the template and quitting vi, i get
>"gbde: write sector 0: Operation not permitted"
>
>...what could be causing this?

You might be trying to overwrite the BSD disklabel.

If it is a BSD disklabel or SUN label, change it so it starts at least
16 sectors into the disk.


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