Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:40:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: `ekips <ekips@whack.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies.com@whack.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: "dangerously dedicated" Message-ID: <XFMail.000412084005.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0004112110230.16167-100000@apogee.whack.org>
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On 12-Apr-00 `ekips wrote: > when making partitions with /stand/sysinstall, i decided to press > "A" and > got the following message: > > "Do you want to do this with a true partition entry so as to remain > cooperative with any future operating systemss on the drive(s)?" > > ... and then points me to the FreeBSD FAQ, where i could not find > any info > on the subject. where can i find good documentation on this? or > even > better, could someone explain all the ramifications of my two > options > [yes/no]. thanx. In short: Normally a disk consists of up to 4 primary partitions (or three primary and one extended, which can contain infinately many extended partitions). A table at the beginning of the disk has space for four pointers to these four regions on disk. A dangerously dedicated disk ignores this table and starts using the disk from its very beginning, as a result of this you cannot afterwards repartition your disk to make space for (shudder) windows. This works all right for FreeBSD: If you have no intention of installing anything but FreeBSD on it then go straight ahead with 'dangerously dedicated'. You can still erase the entire disk and partition it with dos's fdisk later if you want - but you'll lose the your FreeBSD installation then. ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.4 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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