Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:33:17 +0100 From: Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated Message-ID: <4B204FDD.3070005@lazlarlyricon.com> In-Reply-To: <20091210012256.7d2e8240@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20091209002231.EB7D01065741@hub.freebsd.org> <675083.74248.qm@web65510.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <20091210012256.7d2e8240@gumby.homeunix.com>
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RW wrote: > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:42:31 -0800 (PST) > James Phillips <anti_spam256@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > >> I sort of followed the discussion as well. There was some >> disagreement about what "dangreously dedicated" means. Does it mean >> getting rid of the DOS partition table (slices?) Or, does it mean >> creating a slice or disks without BSD partitions? > > It means the former. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > As far as I understand it, it's called Dangerously Dedicated because it may cause other systems not to recognise the disk. Consequently, newfs'ing a slice without first partitioning it can hardly be DD, since that is what other systems do, right?
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