Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 19:50:21 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD - Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Subject: Re: Using a hard drive without partitions Message-ID: <20050730175021.GH70957@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0507301038564d5af4@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a050730012642c200b6@mail.gmail.com> <656DB9CB-8806-4331-B7F0-603F887D7B9F@shire.net> <ef10de9a0507301038564d5af4@mail.gmail.com>
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--J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 12:38:57PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 7/30/05, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2005, at 2:26 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > What are the ramifications, good or bad, of not using partitions on a > > > FreeBSD disk?. As far as my understanding goes, it is an artifact of ye olde days, and should not be used again. There are ramifications for 'tasting' the label on the disk etc, however I do not know what the impact is -- it might just work, or it might not. > This array will NEVER be used with another OS and > It will NEVER be booted from.... The disk array will never show it's > self in DOS because it needs special drivers. In FreeBSD I want it to > show up as one big disk and just mount it as /data or something to > that effect. >=20 > The equivalent in MS-DOS / PC World to what I want to do is make a > primary partition that spans the whole drive. In BSD land this would > be da0s1c.... but from what I've read the c partition (BSD partition) > is reserved and can't be used. So just create one primary slice using fdisk, and then label the disk with disklabel -e and copy & paste the 'c' line to an 'a' line. Then use da0s1a for newfs & mount. The amount of space wasted is negligible nowadays (~10mb or so I guess) and it may just save you in the future if/when support for DD mode goes away (not that I know it will, but you never know...). HTH, --Stijn --=20 Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese. And there are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad...... or maybe my older brother John. Or my younger brother Ho-Cha-Chu. But I'm pretty sure it's John. --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC673dY3r/tLQmfWcRAnviAJ44sQDl5zCzvD7vHu+JqhOhhos1NgCeOuLQ e5feUwJX16rfL9ZHhguNt1Y= =+pp6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN--
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