Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:41:40 -0500 From: Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com> To: Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated Message-ID: <26ddd1750912091741g60fb428ape15225c12e9d8c8b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B204FDD.3070005@lazlarlyricon.com> References: <20091209002231.EB7D01065741@hub.freebsd.org> <675083.74248.qm@web65510.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <20091210012256.7d2e8240@gumby.homeunix.com> <4B204FDD.3070005@lazlarlyricon.com>
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On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com> wrote: > 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 t= he >>> DOS partition table (slices?) =C2=A0Or, does it mean creating a slice o= r disks >>> without BSD partitions? >> >> It means the former. >> > > As far as I understand it, it's called Dangerously Dedicated because it m= ay > 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? That is correct. That slice will not be bootable, but you can use it to store data. - Max
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