Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:47:48 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using /dev/adX instead of adXc or adXe Message-ID: <d7195cff0603131447ufd5aabfm86f5c766b9ee9d7e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420603131221qbf0850fn47ad9f43f246e609@mail.gmail.com> References: <cb5206420603131221qbf0850fn47ad9f43f246e609@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/13/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com> wrote: > What's wrong with "newfs /dev/ad1" "mount /dev/ad1 /mnt" > and using it? The disk will never be used as bootable, and > will never be installed in a non-bsd computer. It's just there > for storage. > > So is there a caveat? I've heard of it being done accidently with no ill effects, and I've done it under qemu with no ill effects. It makes me feel better to have some abstraction WRT disks, I've tended to use glabel(8) for handling this. -- --
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