Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 18:57:40 -0500 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dd and mbr Message-ID: <0a0fb870-04ab-be68-baae-d07c6f58716f@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <73763.1641943824@segfault.tristatelogic.com> References: <73763.1641943824@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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On 1/11/22 6:30 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > In message <20220111192642.937bfcdc22b00a386009fdd7@sohara.org>, > Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote: > >> As you have found fdisk is one weird piece of software, it's faking >> up a default because it read invalid data - the default being what you want >> if you're going to install FreeBSD on the whole thing. > > That's bad. It shouldn't do that. > > Isn't life already hard enough without having our software tools lie > to us? It's bad enough that drive firmware lies on its interface (aka record completed before data is on platters, i.e. in volatile cache). Valeri -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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