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Date:      Sat, 6 Dec 2008 21:00:22 -0500
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        jerrymc@msu.edu, perryh@pluto.rain.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UFS partitioning
Message-ID:  <20081207020022.GB11735@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20081206091545.P33365@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <20081202111740.96805018.freebsd@edvax.de> <20081202163920.GE90039@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <1228355243.23645.10.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <18743.14461.951431.581673@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <1228359465.23645.27.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081204154923.GB1366@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <1228413503.79750.8.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081205160249.GA5954@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <493a29a0.hL3b8/2ruLsiG6A9%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20081206091545.P33365@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:16:00AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> >
> >AFAIK the "danger" is that someone boots the machine with an
> >installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
> >disk as unformatted -- hence "obviously" containing nothing
> >important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR.
> 
> some people rarely boot other OS :)

And, in that case, it probably doesn't matter.

////jerry

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