Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 07:37:40 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD - Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using a hard drive without partitions Message-ID: <4kbr4k9x6z.r4k@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a050730012642c200b6@mail.gmail.com> (Nikolas Britton's message of "Sat, 30 Jul 2005 03:26:04 -0500") References: <ef10de9a050730012642c200b6@mail.gmail.com>
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Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> writes: > Drive: > Dangerously dedicated > /dev/da0s1 > newfs -O2 -U I think you're using "dangerously dedicated" wrongly. A DD disk is one which has no standard partition table in the MBR; the "disklabel" sectors (16) start at sector 0 (or with your no-secondary-partitions- either method, your filesystem would start there (newfs /dev/da0)). You've got a standard partition table with the s1 entry in use, which is not "dangerous". The FAQ has an entry on DD disks. I can't say much about your main question; I've never heard of doing it. It sounds less "dangerous" than putting a FS in a file, like we do with ISO filesystems all the time.
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