Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:49:48 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>, Andre Albsmeier <andre@akademie3000.de>, Marc Tardif <intmktg@CAM.ORG>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning (was: ccd with other filesystems) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010051338530.12163-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20001005101454.I7292@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 5 October 2000 at 9:06:30 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: [about Microsoft "partition" table] > > It adds the following functionality: > > - up to 2^32 partitions (normally limited to 30 in FreeBSD). > > - inter-operability with other OS's. > > OK, I rephrase that: it adds functionality that is seldom needed. > Nearly all my boxes only run a single operating system, and there's no > need for this additional bloat. I'll rephrase that again: it adds functionality that is seldom needed by you :-). Nearly all my boxes run between 2 and 4 operating systems, not counting old versions on old disks/partitions/removable-media/vmware- virtual-disks, although the active ones normally only run FreeBSD-current. Bcue To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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