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authorschweikh <schweikh@FreeBSD.org>2002-10-10 19:16:10 +0000
committerschweikh <schweikh@FreeBSD.org>2002-10-10 19:16:10 +0000
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Document that write(2) et al can return EROFS for attempts to write the
disk label area. PR: 43891 Submitted by: Diomidis D. Spinellis <dds@istlab.dmst.aueb.gr> MFC after: 3 days
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@@ -171,6 +171,13 @@ A signal interrupted the write before it could be completed.
.It Bq Er EAGAIN
The file was marked for non-blocking I/O,
and no data could be written immediately.
+.It Bq Er EROFS
+An attempt was made to write over a disk label area at the beginning
+of a slice.
+Use
+.Xr disklabel 8
+.Fl W
+to enable writing on the disk label area.
.El
.Pp
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