Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:54:40 +0200 From: Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: small question about GEOM and dedicated disk Message-ID: <1214574880.963.12.camel@rivendell.lan>
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Hello list, I just bought a new disk to make my backups (with Bacula). As this disk will be used by FreeBSD only I'd like to use the "dedicated mode" (no bootable). So far I used to do something like: #> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=1k count=1 #> newfs -L foo -U /dev/ad1 #> mount /dev/ufs/foo /foo It seems to work like a charm. However, in the handbook (section 18.3.2.2) the procedure is a bit longer : #> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=1 #> bsdlabel -Bw da1 auto #> bsdlabel -e da1 #> newfs /dev/da1e #> mkdir -p /1 #> vi /etc/fstab #> mount /1 Some questions: - - Is it mandatory to create at least one partition (e in this case) ? - Is it normal that there are no slices in this example ? Is it common to create a partition without any slice in the dedicated mode ? - What are the differences between "my" method and the one in the handbook ? in advance thanks, Julien
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