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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
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Subject: Re: slices to "dangerously dedicated"
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 02:47:24PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:

> 
> 	Suppose I have a disk which was - for various reasons - lebeled
> using slices.
> 	Is it possible to change it to "dangerously dedicated" without
> backup-wipe-relabel-restore cycle?
> 

Not really.    And why would you want to?
Just leave it.   You will gain nothing by the change.  

////jerry


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