From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 17:37:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFAD837B4CF for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:37:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07021; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:36:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200011210136.SAA07021@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) In-Reply-To: <002901c0528b$e934d760$04e48486@marble> from Jim King at "Nov 19, 0 06:50:40 pm" To: jim@jimking.net (Jim King) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:36:53 -0700 (MST) Cc: grog@lemis.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Jim King wrote: > 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. That's really a weak argument, given that FreeBSD prides itself (at least, you'd think so from the blurbs on the CDs) on running in a small footprint. I've got 2.1.7 running on a Compaq 386/20 notebook with an 80meg hard drive. Granted, I don't do much with it, but it's =never= gonna get a bigger hard drive, no matter how much they cost. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message