Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:36:53 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: jim@jimking.net (Jim King) Cc: grog@lemis.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <200011210136.SAA07021@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <002901c0528b$e934d760$04e48486@marble> from Jim King at "Nov 19, 0 06:50:40 pm"
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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
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