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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Ivo Karabojkov <ivo@kit-bg.com>
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On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:09:16 -0800 (PST), Ivo Karabojkov <ivo@kit-bg.com> wrote:
> So I'd like to know how
> to distinguish mode of my current filesystems - is it standard or
> dangerously dedicated?

If you've first created a slice on the disk, and then
partitions inside the slice, it's standard mode, e. g.

	ad0   a    b       d       e       f       g
	{  [  (/)  (swap)  (/tmp)  (/var)  (/usr)  (/home)  ]  }
	   s1

If you've omitted the slice, and created the partitions
on the disk device itself, it's dangerosly dedicated mode, e. g.

	ad0
	{  (/)  (swap)  (/tmp)  (/var)  (/usr)  (/home)  }
	   a    b       d       e       f       g

You can tell by the existence of ad0s1[adefg] vs. ad0[adefg]
in /dev, or by trying to print the disks's slice table.



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
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