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Subject: Re: UFS partitioning
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>
> AFAIK the "danger" is that someone boots the machine with an
> installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
> disk as unformatted -- hence "obviously" containing nothing
> important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR.

some people rarely boot other OS :)