On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:25:10PM +0100, Dieter wrote:
> Trying to newfs my new SATA drive and install 2.0.2, but getting a strange
> "Read-only file system" error message from some (not all) partitions.
> Partition A appears to have worked fine, but partition B
> (and some others as well) complains:
> 
> /dev/wd0a: 98.4MB (201600 sectors) block size 8192, fragment size 1024
>         using 4 cylinder groups of 24.61MB, 3150 blks, 6080 inodes.
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
>      32,  50432, 100832, 151232,
> 
> /dev/wd0b: 5000.6MB (10241280 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
>         using 28 cylinder groups of 178.59MB, 11430 blks, 22400 inodes.
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
>       32,  365792,  731552, 1097312, 1463072, 1828832, 2194592, 2560352,
>  2926112, 3291872, 3657632, 4023392, 4389152, 4754912, 5120672, 5486432,
>  5852192, 6217952, 6583712, 6949472, 7315232, 7680992, 8046752, 8412512,
>  8778272, 9144032, 9509792, 9875552,
> wtfs: write error for sector 16: Read-only file system

Can you show the disklabel for this drive ? Could be that it's trying to
write to a protected sector.

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