From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 16:51: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cgi.sstar.com (cgi.sstar.com [209.205.176.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F7F37B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:50:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluto.jimking.net (root@bluto.jimking.net [216.54.255.8]) by cgi.sstar.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAK0ohs77575 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:50:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Received: from marble (marble.lgc.com [134.132.228.4]) by bluto.jimking.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id eAK0oew09315; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:50:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Message-ID: <002901c0528b$e934d760$04e48486@marble> From: "Jim King" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: References: <20001120105211.O58333@echunga.lemis.com> <20001120110319.P58333@echunga.lemis.com> Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:50:40 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > Why is DD ever _needed_? > > Because Microsoft partition tables waste space. That's a really weak argument, given the price and size of drives nowadays. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message